On the 27th of August 1893 a hurricane struck the South Carolina and Georgia Seacoast with such a massive storm surge it created a phenomenon that was described

The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 details human courage and perseverance in the face of the second most fatal hurricane in US history.

On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. But the de