Hurricane Andrew

[Vierzbanator]

Andrew was a Category 5, but Katrina was a Category 3 and it hogs all the fame! Later, Hurricane Irene was a Category 1 and THAT started hogging all the fame!

Seriously, Andrew is getting ripped off!

[iJamsFilms]

Nooo! I am Andrew @_@

[BieberGirlfriend30]

@XSnipes00 me too

[NowKillYourself]

That guy was nuts for keep his family there. I realize they were mislead and told Andrew was weakening and moving out to sea, but once they turned on the news and found out it wasn't weakening. That it was gaining strength and heading into their direction; He should have packed up as much belongings as possible, boarded up the windows, load the family up in the car and headed north. Stay at a hotel in another state, a safe distance away. Category 5 hurricanes are not to be fucked with.

[Ramstar71]

I was in Cyclone Yasi. They should have made a new category just for Hurricane Andrew. Category 6. That would be strong. Yasi was a terrible experience.

[HurricaneChasing]

OMG, is your family okay?

[HurricaneChasing]

Andrew was strong! Category 5.

[XSnipes00]

my mom named me after this Hurricane

[XSnipes00]

my mom named me after this Hurricane. no lies

[thaisc21]

When the man starts talking at about 5:30--6:00-- I'll admit, I got emotional. It was just such raw and real emotion. I am happy your family is safe.

[VirtualAutonomy]

I am Andrew.

[thefowlerfam]

I was 15 when Andrew hit and I lived in the Redlands. My mother went thru Betsy, Camille, Andrew, Katrina and then Rita and she says to this day that she has never experienced anything like Andrew. No matter what anyone says that was no normal hurricane. Just look at the damage it caused compared to other storms. We stayed in my fathers shop in Sunnyland and were very lucky to have survived. After the storm we were under a mattress w/ a wall on top of us

[AroundSun]

23 people is not alot for this kind of storm. we just lost around that in irene, which was a cat 1 and tropical storm

[Jemma1999]

@AroundSun I agree. But we actually lost about 30, I believe.

[abandon14]

@AroundSun unofficially the number of fatalities was much higher.

[BananaPresident]

why dont you americans build your houses of bricks and concrete if you know that every year a hurricane is coming?

[VALAREZ]

@BananaPresident cheapness

[Uzbach]

@BananaPresident I agree with you that they should build houses made of concrete, especially Florida. However here in Florida we haven't really been hit with any major hurricane in quite a while

[abandon14]

@BananaPresident try to live your life in a concrete house in tropics.

[TheJmSter]

why is this happening in america

[EthanMauAsam1]

@TheJmSter because you guys are always god bless america, god bless america! why cant you guys say god bless the world!

[TheJmSter]

@EthanMauAsam1 k.......................

[TheJmSter]

@EthanMauAsam1 GOD BLESS THE WORLD!! happy?

[jayharo44]

this is the most powerful kind of hurricane. a catagory 5. 156+

[4everjared]

I'm just watching this because of hurricane Irene.

[MrKing8050]

his sister his making landfall this weekend

[cookiesaysrawrr]

Irene is coming!!!!  Category 4 :(

[MegaObliterate]

@cookiesaysrawrr Irene is not Category four; the max wind speed for irene as of 115Mph which is Category three; the hurricane will be Category two when it finally hits North Carolina.

[joshfromil222]

@MegaObliterate no its going to be a 3 and it has all day today to speed up possibly to 4 its only 5 miles from 3 which it will most likely be its not gonna slow down from a 3 when it reaches it today nc/va is getting hit with a 115 mile/120 mile per hour wind speed watch the news/weather but then again they change it every 2 hours

[est1830]

i only searched this cause my name is andrew

[theelimanningfan]

@est1830 my name is andrew also

[IMAX]

I never want to go through that again...

[rockkong1]

Why is his sister on the way now ._.

[kevlore123]

Andrew's sister Irene is on the way here

[MegaPointlessFilms]

My birthday is the anniversary of this storm. :)

[Jordan2000son]

oooooo, i'm gonna rub this in my best friend's face his name is andrew! >:)

(sadly this was the year my grandpa died)

[4evrpeace1]

@holocaustdefender33

Yea, ur right. Forgot about Katrina.

[Ps3Puppy500]

my friend is named Andrew and since it did lots of damage he was like go me!!!!!!! it was funny he did it during class

[4evrpeace1]

My mom was in this storm. Instead of going north she told her grandparents to go south. Lol

Well the windows blew out and they replaced them with mattresses. They were hiding under the stairs screaming. The house was only damaged not majorly and their car was ok as well but everywhere around them, it looked like the world ended. I hope another disaster like that doesn't strike.

[holocaustdefender33]

@4evrpeace1, Another disaster like Andrew did strike, it was called Hurricane Katrina!!

[kkk345ify]

in arkansas i lived through 2 tropical storms the second one blew a quarter of a dead tree into our yard.

[joshfromil222]

@kkk345ify tropical storms are not near as bad as hurricanes but can do little damage to trees and mobile homes

[kkk345ify]

@joshfromil222 yea i know

[spo36]

haul ass next time, go NORTH!

[sado402]

My name is Andrew , I am the most powerful being in the universe mwa ha ha ha

[gewnpendragon]

that strom was a bad one i lived through it. i was a young child at the time and i would forget it for aslong as i live.

[unrooolie]

so kids this is how twister at universal studieos was made

[rocknrollmom44]

WHERE CAN I GET THAT MOVIE. I DID SEE IT LONG TIME AGO

[huytrewas]

good video helped with homework :)

[ReturnofVegeta]

I shed a few tears of the damage peoplE. =(

[pnut2147]

well if i heard correctly Global warming is true! But it doesnt come from the pollution like Maurice strong would love us to believe. Global warming is a natural thing. It comes from the sun warming the earth. The Earth is just like that old red car that sat out in the sun all day long, everyday. Mr. strong make's billion's off of anti-pollution devices. The more he can scare us into believung that we are the cause of the end of the world, the richer he get's.

[ClintsFitness]

@pnut2147 I agree

[wizardsorcerer101]

Daniel is cute :)

[Jcprocks48]

there is a boy named andrew in my class we read about huricane andrew and we are all likeHOW COULD YOU

[Joshisourfriend]

With Global Warming, this will seem like nothing...

[adzyb69]

@Joshisourfriend Global Warming? Im afraid that does not exist, science proves that, Global Warming is nothing more than a government weapon to control us.

[Joshisourfriend]

@adzyb69 No idea where you're getting that logic from....

[DarkHistoryX]

@adzyb69 You're an idiot.

[abandon14]

@adzyb69 the science that has authority to prove your claims doesn't do so.

[adzyb69]

@abandon14 Wow, you went back in the comment section to a year ago to find my comment, what a wonderful life you must live.

[VictoriaPINK119]

I have to be grateful because i survived through Charley and Andrew.

[Casper0001]

No, the hurricane from the 1935 hit the coast with 200 MPH winds. It also killed roughly 200 people...

[VictoriaPINK119]

@Casper0001 hurricane camile was not 200 mph & it was in 1969

[wizardsorcerer101]

wasn't hurricane andrew the strongest? i think it was because, 175 MPH!!!!!! HOLY CRAP!!!

[fireflames57]

ok i dislilkd this cause hurricane andrew was mean o.O

[redoma2008]

i remabro the hurrican adrew my mother was pranget 4 mylittle sister me and my sister middle sister we was little scare

[wizardsorcerer101]

@redoma2008 how old are you? cuz the things you said do NOT make sense.

[Knightoftheorient]

Ok this guy needs to go and have some maths lessons, winds gusting at at 175mph like in Hurricane Andrew dont make it 20 times more powerful then a storm of 50mph, it was 3 and a half times more powerful lol :) Just thought I would point out that little fact, still bloody powerful nonetheless!

[zephyrus001]

@Knightoftheorient. Actually, it sounds like you need a physics lesson. Power is proportional to the square of velocity; thus a mass of air moving at 175 mph has approximately 15 times the power of the same mass of air moving at 45 mph.

[starfly7]

@zephyrus001 Oh stfu

[andrew23chandler8]

i was in hurricane Isabel and it was nothing like this Andrew is my name .

[2prince2ster]

I was 11 years old when Hurricane Andrew struck south Florida. I lived in the area where the eye of the storm passed over; Homestead, FL. I could remember my ears popping at around 3:00am and things hitting our house constantly. The whistling sound of the wind sorta like a runway train. I was laying down on the floor and could see outside the window was dark but I remember the sky suddenly turned green and pink and the wind got stronger, I believe many tornadoes was in that storm!

[redsoxandpats]

August 23rd 1992..Damn that was my third birthday..

[DarkNintendo2000]

i saw this show just a week ago, and wanted to see it again since hurricane earl is coming close to massachusetts, where i live

[YourNameHere136]

@DarkNintendo2000 i live in mass too, not much happened, it degraded to a tropical storm

[LILTINY6]

omg hurricane andrew did damage

[TennesseeVols86]

of course I mean cat 5 andrew the one that destroyed FL (yes i know he went through louisiana too but that was when he was weaker and not at his peak)

[Peugeot908HDIFAP]

@TennesseeVols86 Yep. Andrew was a CAT 3 when it hit Louisiana. As much as I hate to say it, Miami was lucky with Hurricane Andrew. The storm hit a sparsely populated area in South Dade County. If it would have hit Miami/Miami Beach/Ft. Lauderdale the devastation and death would have been insane.

[TennesseeVols86]

Imagine if another hurricane as devestating as andrew came through... I mean gust over 200mph (estimated) I mean in this economy people would just be homeless. I mean we would have another katrina disaster on our hands (stealing theft robberies etc) Also think about this.. imagine if Andrew had came through new orleans you want to talk about a catastrophic situation....

Many of the new orleans and louisina folkes are still rebuilding after 6 years

[TennesseeVols86]

trailer park wow.... understandable people dont have alot of money to be able to afford nice homes.... however you would think that the govt would help this people that live in trailer parks in a state that gets hit with a HURRICANE NEARLY EVERY YEAR! and sometimes TWICE!... I mean come on... its not that hard to build a cinderblock home for some of these families who cannot afford a brick/cement home.

[goremurder10]

thats whats hapens when u live in florida

[FastMg42]

hurricane Andrew as the same power as a midum size soviet /russian ICBM good luck next time oh minus radiatiation fall out that kilss for the next 60+ years

[FastMg42]

Obama and mR bUSH HURRICANE IS FAR WORSE THAN aNDREW

[Flamalenurse]

Would like to state that @ 0:30 that statement is inaccurate. Not "all hurricanes" start off from Africa.

[sweetiegrl41]

i love the sound of the people running by in the building! zoom zoom zoom

xD

[DukeAlba]

Interesting I live by 137th and 180th very close to the trailer park that was wiped out. Its crazy, but I drive by there every day and lo and behold, there is still a trailer park... I guess people never learn. I live on the edges of the city and every time Hurricane season comes by we get flooded and the power goes out for a week or so.

[beautifulgessica]

they said it was a cat 4 forever.. then like 10 years later finally announced that it was a cat 5. REALLY??

[Peugeot908HDIFAP]

@beautifulgessica Yes, They upgraded it in 2002. Sustained winds were at least 165 MPH with numerous higher gusts. I've seen CAT 4 Hurricane damage and Andrew was much worse than ant CAT 4 I have ever seen. Andrew was even stronger than Katrina at landfall......

[SmashBrosFan19]

@Peugeot908HDIFAP Katrina wasn't strong at all at landfall compared to a lot of other hurricanes. It was a weak category 3. The reason it was such a tragedy was because it is basically the worst location in the world for a hurricane to hit. If a category 5 hurricane hurricane like Andrew was ever hits New Orleans, it would literally erase the city off the map

[jadedmastermind]

@Peugeot908HDIFAP Dr. Fujita (creator of the Fujita scale) toured southern Dade county and said the winds had to be at least 200mph to create the kind of damage he saw. Nobody knows how fast Andrew's winds really were, because every anamometer was destroyed in that storm. What is clear, however, is that Andrew had to be a Cat 5 to cause that kind of devestation.

[Peugeot908HDIFAP]

@jadedmastermind Damn that is insane. I knew they had to be pretty high. I still have never seen that kind of damage. I think Charley in 04 was the strongest storm wind wise to hit since Andrew and Charley was 145 MPH. Were you living in S. Dade in 92?

[ericsummey95]

Not all hurricanes start off the coast of Africa. Katrina didn't.

[Multrox]

I was born during Hurricane Andrew.

[wildwillows456]

OK i understand that Hurricane Andrew was sad and all. BUT why the hell would you wait in your hiuse for a hurricane they could have died that was the mos stupidest thing in the world!! ESPICALLY with a new born baby!! That make nooo sense to me and its not like he didnt know it was coming why didnt he like leave and go somewhere else??

[stuffunee]

@wildwillows456

I know it seems crazy to have stayed. BUT what he didn't say that hes said on many other interviews is that that wasn't an evacuation zone. I sure as hell don't get it either. But even up to last year the Florida emergency managers were saying go 10 miles inland you'll be fine. Just be careful everyone. Know what your house can withstand. Leave if you feel its right.

[masterandyman]

I lived at 12370 sw 187 terrace, South Miami Heights. The windows blew in and my wife and 8 yr old daughter were screaming. We hid in the bathroom under a queen size mattress until the house quit shaking. It was a solid concrete block home built in 1958.

[miacuban84]

i lived in cutler ridge when andrew hit .. shit was all fucked up

[JDiaz96]

i am in Broward :P

[viciouzex]

I lived off Bird Rd and 125 ave when Andrew hit. about 6 hours of super awesome fun time!!!

[sbatncpl]

Might anyone know the television program from which this scene was taken?

[pinolero305]

Diz givs me da chillz i wuz 5 yearz old lucky i wuz in an appartment in hialeah still scaryyy as fuck

[atimpeiro]

Please learn to use english.

[lostindiancamp]

What I don't understand is how Perrine, FL was not in the evacuation zone during Hurricane Andrew. Andrew made landfall and tore up Homestead, which is much farther inland than Perrine. The two cities are not that far apart mileage wise either.

[DaLilGamer]

My Dad was in the hurricane and his G-F told him to stay shes crazy but he didnt stay

[213BleachFan1]

I Was Named After A Hurricane :3 (my real name is andrew)

[iPinoyBaller]

Wow, I saw this at school

[1RadicalOne]

I was five when this happened...

[BluuSkyz]

me too, I was in the heart of Dade. :)

[shepboy8]

my name is andrew and i was born on august 24 1992.

my moms name is dolly and my dads is

bonnie

[RCvolunteer1978]

how are you guys are doing now I had move north to the other end of the turn-pike i live in Homestead at one end of the turn-pike I WAS at 15633sw 297 TERR

[Medieval2totalwar1]

hurricane katrina costed 81 billion

[1ninga]

my name is andrew and i was born august 24 1992

so i dont care how much yall now yall cant top that so hahahahah

[jmsteele24]

yes i can i also was born on the 24th also in miami, during the hurricane and my name also is andrew and my moms name is katrina

[1ninga]

hell naw thats a coincdence

[mommymvideos]

We were in Miramar. I made my husband cut down the giant black olive tree in front of the house in May when I saw the names list published. I joked with my neighbor that Andrew was going to be a 'big one', as their son was named Andrew! Little did we know..

Our friend found a wind meter, broken, in the Gables at 214 mph. The Norfolk Pine around the corner cracked off and hit the ground at about 4 a.m. Glad we took down that black olive tree. I don't miss the $5000/yr insurance bill!

[triton115]

What was Stanley Goldenberg's house made of?!?

[stuffunee]

His house looked to be made of the typical stucco construction. I think thats what its called. Anyway I saw more of his video on the weather channel. It was not a mobile home. Nor was it a frame home with siding. It looked to be solid. Good question. dont know why it got a thumbs down?

[carmelo1966]

Did he say 175 mph when it hit Miami-Dade?

[CyrusNixes]

Originally it was thought that Andrew had 145mph sustained winds at landfall. 10 years laster the sustained winds were upped to 165mph. From what I've been told by storm chasers and my own research, Andrew probably had sustained winds around 175mph in certain locations, with gusts over 200mph. It caused the most severe wind damage I have ever seen - far more than Hurricane Charley, Camille and Hugo.

[carmelo1966]

Thanks for the info very interesting,surely that was a very powerful hurricane. I went through Hurricane George,I was in Puerto Rico when it hit and that was a direct hit. I seen a lots of destruction from this Hurricane, I remember George had sustained winds of 150 mph before hitting the Island. still Andreww amaze me with that kind of winds.

thanks again.

[CyrusNixes]

No problem! I think Hurricane Georges was a hurricane that was, like Andrew, underrated at landfall. There is a film on youtube by "cyclonejimcom" that shows winds in Georges on Puerto Rico that look to be sustained around 120mph in a few burts, 5mph higher than what the peak sustained winds in the entire storm were supposed to be.

[carmelo1966]

I know Georges winds die down right before hitting the Island of vieques. I just saw the radar loop for George and it really amaze me how big that thing was. by looking at the radar we were like 20 miles away from the eyewall so we did have very strong winds.

[totalownage334]

my mom was in that

[babygirl1140]

i lived to tell the tale i was in miami-dade county when it happend i was only 4 so i do not remember much

[brunoofthesheikra]

I remember when the storm hit... I was scared, even though I was just on the extreme northern side of it [south brevard county, FL]. Seeing the vids of it still scares me a bit.