Yeah, during Hurricane Andrew, me, my girlfriend at the time, my best friend at the time and his g/f were hunkered down in my friend's g/f's house in Westchester not far from 87th ave. We experienced the wrath of Andrew first hand. It got progressively more violent as the night progressed. During the passing of the eye, we went out into the front yard to assess the damage at that point, which is a dangerous and stupid thing to do.
The 2nd half of a hurricane is always the worse as the tail end of the storm will slam the brunt of it's force with fury! After the storm had passed we finally emerged from our shelter to see what looked like a damned war zone! We couldn't recognize Miami at that point. We saw a semi-tractor trailer on top of the roof of a strip mall on 87th ave, houses were destroyed. There was chaos, devastation. It was insane!
Thank you sooo much for posting this.. i was just a boy in 3rd grade when this hit but this impacted our lives more than anything before or sinse this happened and i have lost our orriginal vhs of this production but glad to see this again.. fyi we were in the Kendall area
@fisherprice5600 Yep great post...I was 17 and lived in Homestead, I remember getting stopped by military troops on Eureka Drive during the curfew and had to show ID that I lived in the area. I was like "yes sir yes sir" to the soldier, and he grinned and said, "dont call me sir we are almost the same age."..I replied "Yeah, but your the one holding the machine gun"....
I remember Katrina victims talking about being disoriented because the landscape had changed so drastically. This was something we all hope never happens again, even though we know it could.
this is something I will never forget. I lived in Cutler Ridge when Andrew hit. It destroyed my house ! Every Hurricane season I always think , This year we're going to get hit ! That area was terrible after. People would fight for a bag of ice. And the looting was terrible. It was also the hottest summer ever.
I was 3 when this happened, but I have memories. My family lived in Country Walk. We stayed through the whole storm. I remember having to go from room to room while the roof of our house was being torn off, and sitting under matresses for hours sweating. For a couple years after this storm I had to go to a child pyschologist because of my fear of having to go through something like this again. But my dad did save his big screen TV during the eye of the storm. sat in my living room till I was 15
I went thru it as well. AS horrifying and bad as it was, we didnt have it as bad as miami-dade and Broward Counties did.Scary none the less for a 10 yr old ( thats how old I was at the time) However, I do feel that the state as a whole learned a lesson from this storm. Even if they say its going to turn, people still prepare for even a cat 1 storm. And that leaving for a shelter is the safest bet if you cant leave all together. I still have nightmares from it all upon occasion to this day.
What? Andrew was a category 5, siwy!!! I lived through it. We'll be getting IKE next Tuesday as a Category 3. Quick - put up them thar shutters and pray the roofs stay on.
oh yes this storm was strong!! I has to move out of my house and stay in a shelter. After the Storm, I stepped out of the shelter and saw the longest lightning bolt of my lifetime!! Then when I came back home, my neighborhood was in ruins! There was trash everywhere and I Had A very Tall tree that was blown down to the ground!!
LovemehatemeLOLZ - let's see, when Andrew hit us in 1992, you were 3 years old!!! Oh yes! I see that makes you an authority on whether or not Andrew was a killer hurricane?
I will never forget Andrew, just saw a special on what would happen if an Andrew like storm in the beaches and downtown..scary. As was Andrew...Angel, like you I get freaked when hurricanes come, best to think of the positive things though. I agree it was great to see everyone helping everyone else...just wish it didn't have to happen that way.
Wow i remember watching this. strange seeing phone numbers with no area codes. plus 786 didnt exist yet. dont even remember when we started dialing 305
Wow! This really takes me back. I remember the windows breaking, water rushing into the house, and loud sounds that haunted me for months. The cold chilling feeling I had when it was hard to breathe. Not knowing if I would make it out alive. I was scared! To this day I still get freaked whenever I hear about hurricanes.But then I remember all the good things after the storm. People helping eachother out. Strangers giving a hand. We all came together as one big family.I want to say THANK YOU!:)
I was in the Quail Roost area and lost a room and the garage. 5 Acres of trees with trunks more than a foot across were gone without a trace. A tornado was roaring over the house and sucked our ears so hard we thought our ear drums would break. It twisted the house next door. Houses around us were almost completely gutted. A truck was on a roof. A car was in a tree. Water was sucked out of all the pipes. We had to walk over a mile to get water out of a fawcet the water company set up.We're OK
People in Miami-Dade must have been very different from those in Broward after Wilma. No one gave a tinker's darn what became of victims there except for the Red Cross. For us, Wilma was the last straw. We waited for two years for our wrecked condo complex to be made inhabitable (It is still not inhabited.) before selling for what we could get and leaving Florida behind. My only regret is that I spent so many years there before getting out. My only thanks goes to the American Red Cross!
Andrew drove a lot of people out of Dade county for good. Nothing has been the same ever since.
bigdaddymatty17 1 week ago
I miss these reporters and many others like Rick Sanchez.
amerithaiphx 8 months ago
hhahaha my bro was born then a hes name is andrew
cianh68 1 year ago
two fucking years to have power
zetakev 1 year ago
Yeah, during Hurricane Andrew, me, my girlfriend at the time, my best friend at the time and his g/f were hunkered down in my friend's g/f's house in Westchester not far from 87th ave. We experienced the wrath of Andrew first hand. It got progressively more violent as the night progressed. During the passing of the eye, we went out into the front yard to assess the damage at that point, which is a dangerous and stupid thing to do.
BloodstormGMA 1 year ago
The 2nd half of a hurricane is always the worse as the tail end of the storm will slam the brunt of it's force with fury! After the storm had passed we finally emerged from our shelter to see what looked like a damned war zone! We couldn't recognize Miami at that point. We saw a semi-tractor trailer on top of the roof of a strip mall on 87th ave, houses were destroyed. There was chaos, devastation. It was insane!
BloodstormGMA 1 year ago
Thank you sooo much for posting this.. i was just a boy in 3rd grade when this hit but this impacted our lives more than anything before or sinse this happened and i have lost our orriginal vhs of this production but glad to see this again.. fyi we were in the Kendall area
fisherprice5600 1 year ago
@fisherprice5600 Yep great post...I was 17 and lived in Homestead, I remember getting stopped by military troops on Eureka Drive during the curfew and had to show ID that I lived in the area. I was like "yes sir yes sir" to the soldier, and he grinned and said, "dont call me sir we are almost the same age."..I replied "Yeah, but your the one holding the machine gun"....
StoneCold75 1 year ago 2
@StoneCold75 haha, he who holds the gun has respect.... cant believe its been 18 years! have you commented on miami heralds articles on UM lately?
fisherprice5600 1 year ago
@StoneCold75 any info on where i can purchase the video that channel 4 had about it? i believe it was called 'the big one' but could be wrong
fisherprice5600 1 year ago
@fisherprice5600 I remember seing that video when it aired for the first time..but no I dont know where you could get it now
StoneCold75 1 year ago
I remember Katrina victims talking about being disoriented because the landscape had changed so drastically. This was something we all hope never happens again, even though we know it could.
thewildpearl 1 year ago
lived in kendall during that time. The hurrican blew my front door out and I could hear the wind whistling. It blew my roof out and caved in one part
AYCHMENG 1 year ago
at 5:16 the pizza hut now says izza hu or lzza hu or zza hu
HkKillermind 2 years ago
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2012 Andrew returns !!!! be warned
gjerrildkro 2 years ago
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it will i wonder if 2012 wil lbe a viloent hurricane season too I WANT ANDREW IN 012 TOO BE CAT 5 AGAIN YAY(i love hurricanes because im in colarado)
HkKillermind 2 years ago
this is something I will never forget. I lived in Cutler Ridge when Andrew hit. It destroyed my house ! Every Hurricane season I always think , This year we're going to get hit ! That area was terrible after. People would fight for a bag of ice. And the looting was terrible. It was also the hottest summer ever.
deemayah 2 years ago
Wow, lucky us Canadians don't get many hurricanes, we get snow :/
Sk3L370R 2 years ago
Maybe I should consider Canada to get away from the hurricanes.
mst3kanita 2 years ago
As bad as hurricanes are,I wouldn't want to be in the middle of a nasty,sub zero snowstorm,either :=(
justme632 2 years ago
I was 3 when this happened, but I have memories. My family lived in Country Walk. We stayed through the whole storm. I remember having to go from room to room while the roof of our house was being torn off, and sitting under matresses for hours sweating. For a couple years after this storm I had to go to a child pyschologist because of my fear of having to go through something like this again. But my dad did save his big screen TV during the eye of the storm. sat in my living room till I was 15
murrrph 2 years ago
I lived in homestead during andrew, i was 7 years old, still remember it as if it were yesterday.
thurisaz20 3 years ago
I went thru it as well. AS horrifying and bad as it was, we didnt have it as bad as miami-dade and Broward Counties did.Scary none the less for a 10 yr old ( thats how old I was at the time) However, I do feel that the state as a whole learned a lesson from this storm. Even if they say its going to turn, people still prepare for even a cat 1 storm. And that leaving for a shelter is the safest bet if you cant leave all together. I still have nightmares from it all upon occasion to this day.
somerandomcrazy 3 years ago
CAT 5 ... as strong as it gets. I went thru it and believe me it was the most horrifying experience I ever had.
jmolina103 3 years ago
wanting new friends
great vid ir
KAOSYT 3 years ago
andrew is the strongest hurricane noobs
tinymigetboy 3 years ago 2
It caused the most damage ,but I don't believe it was the strongest. I think Camille was stronger as far as windspeeds go.
HurricaneParty 3 years ago
ANDREWS WAS A KILLA STORM
berger077 3 years ago
i heard andrew was a baby storm
SonicGeneration 3 years ago
What? Andrew was a category 5, siwy!!! I lived through it. We'll be getting IKE next Tuesday as a Category 3. Quick - put up them thar shutters and pray the roofs stay on.
firegal2k 3 years ago
What? you forgot hurricane Hanna
lovemehatemeLOLZ 3 years ago
Miami didn't get Hanna.
firegal2k 3 years ago
a "baby" storm, it fucked Miami up.
jujula 3 years ago
Miami don't seem so fucked up to me
lovemehatemeLOLZ 3 years ago
You weren't there and I was. It was horrible. No power for a month and no food for on week. It was something I will never forget
jenniferashley99 3 years ago
oh yes this storm was strong!! I has to move out of my house and stay in a shelter. After the Storm, I stepped out of the shelter and saw the longest lightning bolt of my lifetime!! Then when I came back home, my neighborhood was in ruins! There was trash everywhere and I Had A very Tall tree that was blown down to the ground!!
yellowdiva21 3 years ago
LovemehatemeLOLZ - let's see, when Andrew hit us in 1992, you were 3 years old!!! Oh yes! I see that makes you an authority on whether or not Andrew was a killer hurricane?
firegal2k 3 years ago
yeah.. cause that's the whole point of the video
bluemooncarter19 3 years ago 2
LOL DAVE GAME WAS A STALLION....
papichu51 3 years ago 6
@papichu51 Ha! True..RIP Big Dave.
StoneCold75 1 year ago
@StoneCold75 RIP? He's still listed on WFOR's website as a web journalist.
JKing3340 1 year ago
@JKing3340 Oh sorry..maybey I was thinking of the other 3rd string South Florida beat reporter Al Sunshine...he's dead right?
StoneCold75 1 year ago
I will never forget Andrew, just saw a special on what would happen if an Andrew like storm in the beaches and downtown..scary. As was Andrew...Angel, like you I get freaked when hurricanes come, best to think of the positive things though. I agree it was great to see everyone helping everyone else...just wish it didn't have to happen that way.
Megs1004 3 years ago
Wow i remember watching this. strange seeing phone numbers with no area codes. plus 786 didnt exist yet. dont even remember when we started dialing 305
QuebolaQuebolin 3 years ago
Wow! This really takes me back. I remember the windows breaking, water rushing into the house, and loud sounds that haunted me for months. The cold chilling feeling I had when it was hard to breathe. Not knowing if I would make it out alive. I was scared! To this day I still get freaked whenever I hear about hurricanes.But then I remember all the good things after the storm. People helping eachother out. Strangers giving a hand. We all came together as one big family.I want to say THANK YOU!:)
angelbunz 4 years ago
I was in the Quail Roost area and lost a room and the garage. 5 Acres of trees with trunks more than a foot across were gone without a trace. A tornado was roaring over the house and sucked our ears so hard we thought our ear drums would break. It twisted the house next door. Houses around us were almost completely gutted. A truck was on a roof. A car was in a tree. Water was sucked out of all the pipes. We had to walk over a mile to get water out of a fawcet the water company set up.We're OK
kathynoda 3 years ago
People in Miami-Dade must have been very different from those in Broward after Wilma. No one gave a tinker's darn what became of victims there except for the Red Cross. For us, Wilma was the last straw. We waited for two years for our wrecked condo complex to be made inhabitable (It is still not inhabited.) before selling for what we could get and leaving Florida behind. My only regret is that I spent so many years there before getting out. My only thanks goes to the American Red Cross!
thegeorgian 3 years ago
I had never seen WCIX's coverage from after Andrew. Thanks for posting.
NewmanNewsman 4 years ago 4
John Hambrick retired from television news in the summer of '93.
dgendvil 4 years ago