MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – We have come a long way in weather forecasting and technology since 1954. When we signed on the air, we had no weather satellite in space.
What this means is that two significant hurricanes in our history, Hazel in 1954 and Gracie in 1959, were forecast without the help from above that we rely on so much today.
Hazel was certainly worse for North Carolina. But for us, it was the first hurricane we had to deal with after hitting the airwaves. Hazel made landfall in North Carolina on October 15, 1954, some three weeks after WUSN flipped on the switch…