Hurricane Andrew 1992 - The Aftermath

This is a vignette of footage I shot in Perrine (now Palmetto Bay), Florida after Hurricane Andrew struck in 1992.

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Education

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• 1992
• Hurricane
• Andrew
• Miami
• Perrine
• Florida

[amerithaiphx]

Thank you for sharing. I lived in Miami Springs but our first house at Homestead A.F.B. was demolished!! Just grass growing now. Just wonder about if anyone stayed or if the force had it completely shut down??

[ultimafuelie]

My dad was retired Navy and I grew up in the 70's & 80's going to HAFB on the weekends (BX, commissary, etc.); dad played a lot of golf there at the course. It was made into an air reserve base after Andrew.

[lostindiancamp]

How can it be that Perrine was not in the evacuation zone, yet it is closer to the ocean and only 12 miles from Homestead? I don't understand how it wasn't in the evacuation zone. It doesn't make any sense.

[ultimafuelie]

That's a darned good question; it was exactly one mile from 168th street east to the Deering Estate which was on the water......................

[ultimafuelie]

I remember driving down 87th Ave towards 184th Street a few weeks after the Storm in my brand new '93 Mustang GT and I was listening to local news on the radio; a guy commented that officials believed it could take 3-5 years to get all of the Hurricane damage cleaned up and repaired and I remember thinking, "Gees, that'll be 1995-97 before this place is back to normal......" and it left me with a total sense of hopelessness. But we recovered and cleaned up much faster than that.

[sl1ker]

At 2:59 I can see the restaurant that gave me first job as a busboy. You can't tell by the sign obviously but it was called "Flamingo's". Wow, it is cool to see that since I did not work there till after the Hurricane.

[ultimafuelie]

Before it was "Flamingo's", it was called the "Ranch House" up into the 1980's; I used to ride my bike with a friend there in the late '70s before going to school at Southwood Jr. High for their "99 Cent" breakfast.

[lisahunny27]

wow 20 years ago  from this year already!wow!

[andrenegwer]

Nature you're scary

[54elamp]

hey! you drove past my house lol pretty crazy to see this considering i was merely two years old at the time

[kkk345ify]

@carrysmith2008 no actually there were no tornados in huricane andrew

[carrysmith2008]

what cuased most of the damage were tornados that came out of the hurricane.

[TheShootTruth10]

@Katelinanator NEVER.

[nathan33445]

@Katelinanator ehh i doubt it may be

[Katelinanator]

THEY SAY IRENE IS GONNNA BE WORSE THAN ANDREW!!!!!!

[MICHITO62]

Menos mal que tenia el pasaje en avion para el dia 22-08 a media noche por aerolineas argentina, que por suerte no lo suspendieron a pesar que fue el ultimo vuelo a bs as. La gente en los comercios, me decian que se iban todos a otros lugares por lo que se venia y me decian que tenia la suerte de irme antes que se venga el desastre.