Hurricane Andrew DVD preview

[thefowlerfam]

My mother has gone through Camielle, Betsy, Andrew, Katrina & Rita. (shes like a magnet for hurricanes) From what she says, Andrew was far more the worst she's been through. She's from Louisana and moved back there not long before Katrina. She told me Katrina was bad, but she never thought it was anything close to how Andrew was. She has alot of experience w/ those storms. We told her after Katrina & Rita to stay in Louisana, we'll come visit...lol

[thefowlerfam]

I don't remember the street we were on during the storm. We were in the industrial section of Sunnyland. There was a row of Austrailan pine trees behind us that blocked the shops from a neighborhood. My father owned Crossover Boats & my grandfather owned Fowler Electronics which was right next door. Just a few months before Andrew we lived on 100th Ct & Colonial Dr. The last time I was down there was in 95

[kas2831]

I was 10. My roof did not fly off, thank GOD...my dad boarded up the windows well. However, shaking of the house, whistling of the wind, transformers blowing, power lines going down, flashes of light, noises impossible to describe (sort of like a train or a big horn, popping, banging...) In summary, I thought I was going to die. I was in South Dade, about 10 min. from Country Walk...pretty bad.

[2000mitsueclipse]

2:45 dont litter in my yard ill call the litter police lmfao thats a guy who knows how to deal with hurricanes

[asholemoto]

the homes at about 2:27 where the car is in the front lawn upside down. where is that? it looks like the duplex's by the target in cutler ridge on allapattah.

[canebeard]

@asholemoto At SW 156 st and 99 ave, Perrine

[sponsler]

Thanks for sharing the link, Richard! Your account was great too. Steve.

[thefowlerfam]

I was 15 when Andrew hit. We just moved to the Redlands. Thank God we stayed at my fathers boat shop in Sunnyland. We still went threw the worst of the storm, we missed the eye by about a 1/8th of a mile or so, but most of the building stayed up. But or house was gone. I live in Tampa Bay now & my wife's family couldn't understand why I was so worried when we had Hurricane Charlie heading toward us

[canebeard]

@thefowlerfam The northern edge of the eye was at about 200 st. If you were at 124 st, you were 4 1/2 miles from the eye. If you were at 112 st you were 5 1/2 miles from the eye. South of there is the Falls area. In Miami it is 16 streets to the mile.

[nanci00]

We went through the eye. Just watching the video makes me feel ill. 300 horses died or had to be killed that day. It took us 2 hours to go 5 miles to check on a friend, whose house it turned out, was totally blown away. We worked w/ the animal Mash unit for weeks on Krome Ave. . A man we knew as Col. Mack from the National Guard served as a live-in vet for 5 weeks & saved dogs' lives working in the worst of conditions imaginable. The animals we saw were in pitiful shape & completely traumatized.

[jgold95]

wow, that storm still haunts me. i was 15 and I lived in Country Walk, nedless to say i am still traumatized by having my house ripped to shreds while i was in it.

[punkrocker33446]

damn im home sick being up in chicago. i was only 1 when the hurricane hit, luckily i was 30 minutes north of dade

[spanky735]

I lived on holiday rd. in cutler ridge during Andrew. Need I say more? Oh and by the way, the masking tape on the windows thing........doesnt work!

[canebeard]

@spanky735

I don't know why some people put masking tape on their windows. The only thing it does is stick to whatever is left of your windows, and is impossible to remove. A silly superstition at best, for lazy people who do not want to board up.

I had a friend that lived on Holiday, a block north of Cutler Ridge Rd: Chip K. I recall a trailer from a tractor trailer was deposited in his next door neighbor's pool. BUT, as with most brick homes, it was mainly the roofs that were damaged.

[dane774]

@spanky735 Neither did the plywood. The only room left was the one were in. We used a mattress over the window when we were in homestead.

[antonazha]

i love Miami♥ we are use to hurricanes but not Andrew type

[sftbllfn08]

i was only 4 years old when hurricane andrew hit. my mom and dad was in new orleans with my brother that was about 3 months old and they were in the hospital at the time. now i am 21 and my brother is 18 now.

[CMazzucco]

i lived in homestead when it hit. i was about 6 years. one of the most terrifying experiences of my life, and i remember it vividly.

[tealmarlin]

3:17 ''Good construction'' ummmm, Not

They discovered that many of the homes in that area were badly built, like when they nailed in the nails for the roof, many of the nails missed their mark, the nails didnt even go into the wood on the other side to secure the roof. They changed the building codes for florida after this storm.

[mjfrancis526]

How strong was Andrew when it made landfall in Louisiana? I was 3 months old and was living in Morgan City, Louisiana when it made landfall. So I dont remember anything about it.

[Br0k3nSouL709]

i wasnt even born. but my mo m and dad say it tore off their roof

[Jeka2188]

i was 4 i beleive when andrew hit louisiana... all i remember is my parents packing up everything and driving... it was scary comin home and not knowing what was left...

[Juice8815]

i was 7 yrs old and this storm is the reason I am a meteorologist today :o) I was like, what the hell is that on the screen? then i saw all the helecopter destruction images...i knew then I wanted to learn about them....

[redoma2008]

i was 13 teen year old i was going to seven grade

[rageman777]

three weeks? i lost my house buddy

[heavenlyangellourdes]

I was only 9.

[catintude6]

What time did this thing start and finish at?

[canebeard]

The real intense winds began around 3:30 am and dropped back to below hurricane force around 6 am.

[rosson6989]

hey my name is Andrew.hahaha thats cool

[xMiamiMichael]

Oh man, I was two years old when it happened. That hurricane was intense. I just remember not having electricity for three weeks, dude, life was hell. haha!

It's sad watching this video, all those places that got torn apart are so close to my house. lol, I'm so happy that my roof didn't go flying away. =p

[camouellette]

It made landfall with 165mph in florida not 155mph

[canebeard]

The NHC report stated 155 sustained winds and is so stated on the video that was produced in 1992. This was revised in recent years to state that a very small area, right on the coast did receive 165 mph sustained winds, as you note. Gusts, though, were at least 185 mph in several areas from Perrine to Naranja.

[ancientofdays12]

Just a great video. Loved the audio. Reminded me of when Hurricane Fran went through Raleigh with 75 mph sustained wind. Nothing compared to Andrew, but the sound is unsettling still.

Thanks!

[enterthafatass]

lol litter police

[NosBlaster]

1992...my birthyear. Yup im one hell of a chaotic character... Does anybody know if Andrew took damage near Orlando? Being 2 months old i wasnt able to remember much...

[canebeard]

Andrew was a very small hurricane in size. Orlando had no damage whatsoever; as the eye of Andrew passed over 200 miles to its south.

[NosBlaster]

Oh, i see. Thanks!

[mydcmbr86]

I was 5 yrs old when Andrew came thru Homestead. My family bunkered down in one of those "safe storage" buildings. It had nothing but metal linked cages. So my dad took two bed mattresses and roped them around the walls so debris won't come thru and kill us. I woke up the next morning and the roof was gone. We lost our house. My whole neighborhood was leveled. No one of our family members were injured but I know others weren't as lucky. It took us 3 yrs before we moved out of Dade co.

[NosBlaster]

sry to hear that bro..

[KarinaAndBobby]

and how crappy is it, that the worst damage was done in my town in miami, Cutler Ridge, FL... lovely.

[canebeard]

Some of the live shots were taken in front of my house, in the Ridge-Perrine area. The worst damage I did see was in the Old Cutler Shopping Center. But I must add that the people of Miami (most of them) needed a good humbling, and Andrew did just that. Now it is 16 years later, and Miamians could use another humbling. The going social "push" in that city is to be arrogant, ignorant, and agressive. If you noticed the crime rate in S. Dade decreased markedly for 2 yrs. after Andrew.

[Porchfault]

People underestimated Wilma here. I know I did.

[carmelo1966]

Incredible footage never seen a devastation like that even though I went through Hurrican george when it hit Puerto Rico. we got hit by the eye as well but this destrution is by far worse.

[hood19]

even tho its been 17 yrs, i still remember this quite well, dont know how old i was at the time but i remember our house literally shaking at its foundation...when the windows blew out...when the big rubber tree next door fell over onto the back side of our house. the eye went right over homestead and im not even 10 minutes away from there so you know we felt the full brunt of it.

[thebeach2008]

this scares the shit out of me i live right next to miami south actually and well

[jenniferashley99]

I was 18 and I will never forget the sound of that wind. It was the most terrifying sound I have ever heard

[canebeard]

Haven't you ever stood 6 inches behind a jet engine for 45 minutes before?

[TonyLite]

I hope i never have to go through that again. Was like a bomb went off! No street lights, no signs, just litter and debris everywhere. Only thing i can say is thank God we survived!

[ryanx27]

@ 4:59 -- holy sh*t, it put a board through a palm tree!

[ElementWeF]

I remeber when this hapened i was so sad 2 poles feel on my house and 4 cars flew away that were my familys.

[yoSoyKandy]

i was in kendall/ perrine it was horrible all of country walk about 300 homes were all flat on the ground

[StoneCold75]

how long is the full dvd and where can i get it?

[isirota1965]

If you get an answer, please let me know. Thanks!

[rmc62788]

I'm from Miami and I was 4 years old when it happened. I remember we didnt have services for an entire week.

[Hurrican3AJ]

Thats my storm. Born in the same year. Have the same name. Also love studying hurricanes! I rocked you like a hurricane.

[NosBlaster]

haha no way? Yea our birthyear was quite rough! :P

[dnoise91]

i lived by downtown miami in wynwood n we didnt get too much damage just water

now i live where ground zero was lol

[youtstar212]

it's a good thing u didn't live in southwest miami back then cuz I did. and that night, I must have been 6 years old but I honestly didn't know if we would live through that storm.

[canebeard]

Actually I lived in Cutler Ridge; and the winds at my place gusted around 175 mph. I used up the whole case of toilet paper that night betweein 4 and 5 am. I started the night in Homestead, but drove back to the Ridge at 2 am. as the eye jogged a little north.

[mhr254]

I lived near Cutler Ridge Drive and Franjo... Total and complete devastation. We left with the shirts on our backs.

[KarinaAndBobby]

yeah dude the ridge got messed up real bad from this storm

[starfreestyler]

"I'm calling the litter police" lol after hurricane andrew

[VooDooDollMaster]

god id never wanna have to be in a hurricane this bad >_> the only ones i ever been in were like ummm charlie...francis...and something else i dont remember the last one. they were all pretty weak though but they kinda all hit in a row...hard to explain....my roof collapsed from the inside cuz of the water buliding up in the attic (once again i cant explain myself properly lol)

[mjdart]

I got called into work at FPL's Lauderdale Plant which was a great construction project at the time. I spent 12 hours securing all I could. The storm during that time was projected to hit Fort Lauderdale. While I stopped to listen to an update about 4pm Bryan Norcross proposed it may strengthen to a Cat 5 storm. I left work packed up the family and spent 12 hrs looking for a hotel room. I finally found one in Jacksonville at about the same time the storm hit.

[MBFLA45]

Three of my co-workers were at their homes in Homestead when this hit. All got out alive from totally demolished houses... but one ended up hospitalized with a mental breakdown. Wilma hit my area worse but it was nothing like what Andrew left.

[krh11301]

I stayed in my house in cutler ridge that night, damn i just sat here re thinking all of that, lifes crazy

[kittykitty0422]

used to live in Redland and came down for my high school reunion which didn't happen. andrew was bad but after i didn't have my gun to protect myself. i was very happy to see military presence.

[panama5933]

Me my former husband and four kids were in this hurricane. Watching this video bought back memories of that horrible morning. The roof was swiped off the house, all the windows were broken by the preassure of the wind. When we finaly got outside, we couldsnt believe the devastation. It was un real, we lost everything but iur lives were spared. we started over again and lived in a trailer for almost a year, while our house was rebuilt.

[my80ta]

i would be a mess too with four kids

[bigjoe23465]

I just move from the area where the eye hit in goulds florida that june and move to carol city florida when andrew hit we got the cat 2-3 winds and it scared the hell out of me but when i want back down south it look like a war zone thats real.

[DrylineMedia]

That's just crazy Rich. Thanks for sharing it!

[gvilleguy32605]

Hard to believe it's been 15 years. My folks and I were in the middle of the evacuation to go back to Gainesville.

[youtstar212]

I have to tell you I was in both Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Wilma... and I have never seen anything like I saw on August 24, 1992. I will never forget the destruction on my block was like a war zone. At the time I was living by Metro Zoo and I mean cars flipped, stuff from people's houses two blocks over, it was crazy! I was only 6 years old but I remember it vividly. No other storm in the history of the U.S. has given more wind damage than Andrew did.

[cristina305]

my sister was in hurricane andrew but she's fine.i was a little little baby at the time.

[Mwtorres24]

i was 2 yaers old in little havana at the time

[ricky8541]

someone told me that a billboard sine landed in their backyard and left a hole.

[ricky8541]

i wasnt born at the time cuse i was born in 93 but people told me that andrew was the worst hurricane to hit miami worst than catrina.

[thatch8]

I was 7 when Andrew hit. Me and my family simply packed some cloths and headed up to Daytona beach. When we went back to Miami, you know what! In a way it's all still sad ...

[MrShowtime03]

I was in that Hurricane. I was 10 and I was mad scared. My mom and dad and sister locked our selfs in a closet while the eyewall hit us in South Miami My family lived but I got a broken leg and left arm

[killacky]

Im a native and I love them winds!

Nature's finest!

[azhialove]

I was 10 yrs old when this hit I got the eye my house was jacked the fu*k up..

[cubanskys]

i love living in miami but this hurricane apprehension shit every june is crazy! u never know if you're gonna get hit with a big one or not until the last minute!

[kdeyhates]

i wa sin this hurrican, i was only 9 months old so i cant remember it, but i know me and my mom were locked in a closet while my brothers and my dad were somewere i dont know were, by the end there was nothing left of my home

[kaimisu]

I'm doing a science project on Hurricane Andrew. This was actually quite helpful. Thanks!

[hemirango]

i was in cutler ridge.....wow i cant believe it was back in 1992

[exotiq7001]

I was living in miami lakes at the time. disturbing