Hurricane Andrew 1992, Incredible Damage! Part-1

[billy5853]

I was in hometead on Sunday February 26 2012 I never real lize how big of a city that was I thought that was as small town as pewaukee wisconson no its bigger

[lostindiancamp]

Someone says free food and the blacks and mexicans come running. I guess Publix figures they will be looted anyway, so might as well give it away.

[AthosAmo]

Another reason to move to Mongolia.

[dissturbbed]

This scares the shit outta me but a cat 5 hurricane that makes landfall are VERY rare.

[power953kelly]

For those of us who lived through this, we can say that even these images cannot reveal how absolutely life-changing the Andrew experience was. I am grateful to you for posting this... thank you. I can't believe it's been 19 years... wow!

[DAVORZZZ]

wow that pilot is a moron, where we did a good job, yea good thing too say faggot, we dropped bombs on those innocent ppl, but his hurricane is the real bomb, wow sad

[DAVORZZZ]

usa should stay home n help its ppl not go and attack other countries, karma folks

[purptokenfool]

Katrina was a category 3 when it made landfall, New Orleans is below sea level so no shit it was gonna flood.. Andrew was just unreal, I remember watching the News as it made landfall in Homestead (I was in Naples)

couldn't watch much because our power was out shortly after landfall on the other coast, I believe it rolled by us as a 3 if I'm not mistaken but the east coast just got slammed, looked like bombs were dropped on some of those neighborhoods

[TheShootTruth10]

hurricane andrew was the worst hurricane ever. katrina was only a category 4 (100mph) while andrew was a category 5 (165mph), way big difference. most of the damage done by katrina was because of flooding.

[rebootinginMiami18]

@moviemagg, I was 12 at the time the storm came through. My sister was 10. We rode out the storm at home in the area of S. Miami Heights about 1/4 of a mile from the mall that continues to be seen in the footage. We lost everything. I guess they were trying to reduce the additional trauma. Between the realization that our home was completely destroyed, the looters, lack of food/water, hours long lines for hot meals, and sweltering conditions I figure they thought we had seen enough without the

[Biggieman2k6]

No offense to anyone who lived and lost ppl to Katrina but lets be real. I've had this argument w/ ppl from Louisiana and I stand by it that in sheer power alone, Andrew was stronger than Katrina whereas Katrina had more damage but because of the floods. And lets be even more honest, had the Louisiana government fixed the levies rather than building a new stadium, those floods would've been not nearly as bad. Katrina's aftermath was bad but Andrew was just a bad hurricane for us all around~!!!

[joizzy87]

@Biggieman2k6 I say the same thing. If Andrew had hit New Orleans there would be no New Orleans. If you lived though this storm you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that many many people lost their lives that night almost 20 years ago. I was 5 at the time and we had just moved from Naranja to Sunrise 6 months prior. If my dad did not get his new job ,at the time, I would not be here becuase that duplex community was wiped away. Andrew was....there are no words to describe what it was.

[DKvsLow]

@Biggieman2k6 I hate the "Andrew vs Katrina" crap! A lot of people lost their lives and livelihood in both! Let's stop being so damned petty let's stop thinking our Hurricane was "COOLER"

[Biggieman2k6]

@DKvsLow Obviously ur not literate because nowhere did I try to compare the "coolness" of the hurricanes. My statement was aimed at the sheer force of the storm. From a logistical standpoint, Andrew more powerful which is what I said. Stop trying to read more into the statement than what's there.

[rebootinginMiami18]

Watching this 20 years after riding out the storm at home still brings me to tears. It was one thing to live it another to see the vast destruction from the news station feed. We didn't have electricity after the storm for months and we weren't allowed to watch or listen to the news. Thank you for posting this

[moviemagg]

@rebootinginMiami18 Why where you not allowed to watch or listen to the new? I don't get that!

[joizzy87]

@moviemagg The aftermath of Andrew was meant not to be seen by the general public. Florida gets a lot of its revenue from tourism and they did not want to scare away prospective spenders. Needless to say Kendal, Homestead, Florida City, Naranja all these places saw unspeakable destruction and contrary to poplar belief the released death toll was staggeringly off. All you need to do is as some one who lived in Miami/homestead. Things that happened that night only happen in nightmares.

[moviemagg]

@joizzy87 I'm sure Andrew killed a lot more people in South Florida then was reported! The main stream media did not report the facts!  Read between the lines if you want to learn the truth!

[amerithaiphx]

@joizzy87 I lived in Miami Springs at the time but left the day before, my oldest brother lived in Homestead and the stories he has told me blow my mind and the video on the weather channel. I returned to pick up my things three weeks later and there was long lines to get into the corner stores etc. I was glad to be able to leave from there and not live through it but I did have to for other storms. Def the death toll low, immigrants not counted etc

[joizzy87]

@amerithaiphx We left homestead 6 months before it hit and moved to Sunrise. If you remember you were not allowed in miami dade county after the storm unless you lived there. My dad still had his miami drivers licenses and went back down to our apartment in homestead. The only thing left standing was the kitchen sink. He was working as a missionary to the migrant workers at that time and needless to say many of them never made it back to the church.....

[moviemagg]

Don't worry. This Hurricane (Irene) will not come close to anything that Andrew did back in 1992. Andrew was a powerful cat.5 Hurricane. Irene is just a very large cat.2 with 100 MPH winds. More of a rain and flooding event then anything else. Do you know how to swim?

[MrCman466]

this scares me i live in norfolk va and we are all bracing for irene

[HardTranceMage19]

@MrCman466 No need to worry. Irene is a cat 2 hurricane. Which is about 90-100 mph winds. Not only that, but the more north you go the closer you get to the ice caps which means the water is cooler. So there's no chance that Irene will strengthen at all as it gets closer to landfall (in fact it'll become weaker). For all we know it can possibly become a tropical storm again by landfall! So really, all you're going to experience is a bad thunder storm with some wind. Nothing at all.

[SweetCherriesxO]

Omg and seeing these pics of Homestead... I can't believe that all use to be there!! Now it's nothing but palm tree farms, a few homes, and the NASCAR track.. wow.... just.. wow.

[SweetCherriesxO]

At one point I remember them saying because the wind instruments and doppler were knocked off, they believe tht it was off the scale for a Cat 5. but could never officially confrim it because everything was blown away. Def remember all this and I was only 4 yrs old.

[moviemagg]

Hurricane Andrew was never supposed to hit Broward. The last 48 before landfall it was aiming it's sights on Dade County. But Hurricanes are never supposed to hit anywhere. They just end up where the river of air takes them.

[NefertitiRa]

I lived through Andrew, at least you all have time to gather stuff...we did not have a lot of time...was supposed to hit Broward not Dade. Either way, good luck Irene people!

[DKvsLow]

214 was Andrew's highest recorded wind gust, 177 mph sustained winds as the 2nd eye wall hit....thats when andrew knocked out all of the wind instruments and they cant say for a fact what the highest sustained and even gusts could have really been

[moviemagg]

@DKvsLow You are most likely correct!

[cadrolls]

@DKvsLow There was a hurricane specialist who came from Japan and he said that the highest wind gust could have been as high as 270 M.P.H. I imagine that with his credentials, it was an accurate assessment.

[DKvsLow]

@cadrolls Residents of Homestead and Southern Miami Dade only know

[cadrolls]

@DKvsLow I suppose they had wind guages at their homes.

[DKvsLow]

@cadrolls I doubt it, lol

[IXISOUTH]

@xxloneyrainnxx put your head between your ass and kiss is good bye live threw it it was freaking insane

[moviemagg]

If Hurricane Irene makes it up to Ct. it will be nothing like Hurricane Andrew was when it hit South Florida. Andrew was a strong Cat. 5 when it hit Homestead Florida South of Miami. Irene will not be anywhere near that strong a storm. You will be lucky if you see 75 MPH winds by the time Irene gets to you. Nothing to worry about.

[XxLonelyRainnxX]

How do you survive this? Tell me before Irene comes to CT. I'm scared shitless.

[MurphyMonster]

@XxLonelyRainnxX Its going to be a afternoon shower by the time it reaches connecticuitt

[XxLonelyRainnxX]

@MurphyMonster Like hell it will.

[darkwingedone]

Damn i was 2 years old living in Miami when this hit. Mom told me we stayed in our apt bathroom, she told me my ears bleed from the pressure.

[NeckRiff]

Heard stories about this when I was a kid. I'm up in Daytona, hoping Irene doesn't do anything crazy like this to any Florida folks.

[Th3GreatWhiteHunter]

@NeckRiff

kinda freaky that Irene is happening near Andrew's anniversary, but it looks like it may go north of Florida which is good for you guys there for sure

[NeckRiff]

@Th3GreatWhiteHunter For sure, thankfully Florida dodged a bullet.

[ilovetogofast88]

Still the costliest hurricane to hit the United States, many people think it was Katrina, but most of Katrina's death and destruction was caused by flooding

[MYAR15SaysImFree]

@ilovetogofast88 if you adjust the cost of andrew to the rate of inflation til 2005 it would be a way higher cost than Katrina

[jgold95]

i remember this storm all to well. i was 14 and lived in country walk. words cannot describe what really went on that night. it took two days for my family and neigbors to get out of the neigborhood because there was to much debris. for days there was no help that could get to us. even years later the neighborohhod never looked the same.

[MsSimpleLife]

@ Andrew anniversary day after tomorrow. I remember the storm well too. I was on Kendall drive west. It looked worse than a war zone! I remember that Country Walk was obliterated. Your right...words don't do it justice. I am now preparing for Hurricane Irene as it makes it way north. I live in Jacksonville and we are way overdue for one. And as Hurricane Andrew taught us these monsters can have a mind of their own. Andrew surprised everyone down south. It was not expected that far south.

[joesphx19]

The shame of it all were the looters. There are many stories never published but a good friend of mine, a LE officer from N Fl left the day after the storm to go stay with his mother in S Dade. He said that first week, until most of the Guard and Army Reserve were deployed, shots would ring out all night. On the third night after the storm he was sleeping on the floor when someone broke down the front door, he challenged the person and a 12 ga shot went just over his head. He used his .45.

[esteban0321]

It was incredible to walk through my neighborhood the next morning and not recognize it at all because everything was destroyed. As I was walking around the neighborhood I found our tool shed smashed on the top of a house several blocks away. It is very hard to adequately describe the destruction. 

[JosephCLawrence1]

The devestation was just amazing. I remember where we lived got hit pretty bad but not as bad as homestead. I have some amazing pictures of the damage to our neighborhood.

[dane774]

EARS Funny. 1:36 The s just Sailed away.

[TheGman801]

i was 12 i lived 1531 ne 14th st in homestead and i went back a few years ago it just isnt the same when i lived there.. before..

[redoma2008]

i was 13 want hurrican andrew hit my mother was prenget we was leaving 39aven carolcity we was moving in with was borng my mother just work at radison hotel just be 72 ave we was leaving 2 block were she just work

[theu18]

I was 2 when Andrew hit and lived on 188th in homestead. I remember my dad wanting to stay and ride it out because he lived in Miami his whole life, and my mom saying you can stay but im leaving with the kids and thank god for her because I remember the house the next day flatened. we left our cat in the bathroom and as soon as we opened the door he ran out and didnt come back for a week! we drove past that plane everyday I went to play baseball at municipal stadium brings back so many memories

[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!

[zoomerlawns]

No matter how much footage you see, you will never really grasp how much damage was inflicted on south dade county. I remember going outside after it happened and feeling like the wizard of oz - like a tornado had picked up our entire house, floor and all, and put us somewhere else. And strange things happened as well; we found a guy's credit card in our living room!

[mlankford71182]

I was a part of this storm and have one question regarding this to hurricane Katrina. How was it in 1992 we where more prepared to handle a Hurricane of this magnitude than what we where for Katrina? Hasn't the government learned to expect the worst. Did this happen in vain? God bless all who where effected by this storm and Katrina!

[VictoriaEchidna6]

@mlankford71182 New Orleans is below sea level and that was one of the factors when it came to the flooding and such.

[mlankford71182]

@VictoriaEchidna6 I know but you would think goverment would still and should have been ready for the levys to break. This just breaks my heart that is all.

[nickthestick26]

Winds in Andrew's eyewall are estimated to have been near 165 mph at landfall, which is the equivalent of an EF4 tornado. And indeed much of the wind damage caused by Andrew resembles the damage inflicted by a violent tornado. Really amazing footage, and really sad, especially given the scope of the disaster. I was 12 years old when this hurricane made landfall, and remember watching it all night as approached southern Florida.

[csrogc63]

God bless our rescue workers and reporters who kept people calm. Channel 7 was absolutely excellent

[knightweiser]

the cutler ridge mall being blown away like that had me awestruck

[bigjoe23465]

@knightweiser yeah i was 12 and i grew up in goulds and we move from goulds to carol city that june and it was hard to see what happen to the CRM i still remember the smell of pine and wet wood and i never foget what i saw when we drove down south!!

[jgoudeau207]

Wow, sad and we hope it happens no more!!

[CyrusNixes]

Incredible.

[wtf88skullu]

wow. just wow... great video