Hurricane Andrew 1992, Incredible Damage! Part-1

This is local TV Coverage out of Miami, mostly from WSVN Channel-7, starting about three days after Hurricane Andrew hit the Homestead-Cutler Ridge area of South MiamiDade County. This is what happens when a cat.-5 Hurricane hits a major Metropolitan area with 165-MPH sustained winds with gusts as high as 220-MPH.

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Science & Technology

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• Hurricane
• Andrew
• 1992
• Incredible
• Damage
• Part

[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!

[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?

[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.

[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~!!!

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.....

[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

[DKvsLow]

@cadrolls I doubt it, lol

[cadrolls]

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

[DKvsLow]

@cadrolls Residents of Homestead and Southern Miami Dade only know

[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"

[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.

[AthosAmo]

Another reason to move to Mongolia.