Hurricane Andrew 1992 As it Happened! Part 3

Here is part-3 of local Television Media Coverage along with The Weather Channel of Hurricane Andrew's arrival along the Southeast coast of Florida. Hurricane Andrew was a cat.-5 storm which struck the MiamiDade County area between FloridaCity and NorthKendal on August 24th,1992 at around 4:30 in the morning. A wind gust of 164-MPH was registered atop the National Hurricane Center Building located in Coral Gables. The late Bob Weaver, one of the Great WeatherCasters of all time on WTVJ-Channel 4 (CBS) can be seen on this segment at around the 4-minute mark. Bob Weaver did the weather on Channel-4 in Miami from 1949 until he left the station in 2003.

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[gfalcon]

Look at that guy at the beginning of this video... they need to send a reconnaissance aircraft into those eyebrows.

[moviemagg]

@gfalcon That was Miles Lawrence, one of the forcasters at the National Hurricane Center. He use to have hair like that growing out of his adams apple and all over his neck. He's been retired for several years.

[moviemagg]

The last time I saw Bob Weaver in person, he was being helped into that same Publix in Hollywood by his wife. He did not look good at all. This of course was a short time before he got sick. On another note, I also went to that Publix in Hollywood the day before Andrew hit to withdraw money out of their ATM.

[bigjoe760]

@moviemagg This is fascinating. I remember 19 years ago tonight going through the northern fringes of the storm as I then lived in Port St. Lucie. At precisely 3:00am it sounded like a bomb going off outside of our house. Obviously nothing compared to what Coral Gables, Homestead, and Florida City had. Our cable system had channel 10 out of Miami which had better coverage than TWC. Thanks for posting.

[moviemagg]

@bigjoe760 Your Welcome!

[Buswaylocal]

I'm so glad you included that radarscope graphic that 7 used for the opens to it's Andrew coverage! They used the music for months afterward for any Andrew-related "Road to Recovery" report and it opened newscasts proper for a few weeks after the storm. The graphics consisted of a white line representing US-1 zig-zagging out of the bottom of the screen and the names of various South Dade communities would then fly out before fading. After some time this was truncated to a short bumper.

[moviemagg]

You sound like you've been or still are in the news business. Are you?

[Isabel1170]

Great footage. With all the hoopla of Katrina (which was a horrible disaster) people have forgotten what a huge disaster Andrew was. The complete north wall of the eye (the worst part) passed right over my neighborhood. It was the most scary moment of my life. We didn't get storm surge or flooding water but the strength of Andrew was way beyond comprehension, he was so strong that all those other elements were not a factor in it's destruction. Thanks again for posting all these reports.

[vinsetta]

I wish you'd leave it on 4. Give me the remote!

[jonnysilver312]

My Uncle died on the Island of Eleuthera 7:28 in Andrew he was 17 at the time , R.I.P Telford Neely

[marioman57100]

DO HURRICANE GILBERT AS IT HAPPENED

[2woBeForgotten]

Why the fuck couldnt you sum all the fucking videos in 1 smh

[jcextra123]

weather people were more passionate back then, but now they are just ZANY and unstable

[MrSouthphillyitalian]

vivian brown 7:21

[Savipalooza]

I saw The Beatles at 2:34.

[TheJmacaroni]

I remember this... :/

I was living in Cutler Bay at the time, our house was in ruins.

I don't live in Miami anymore, this video, seeing so many familiar things and places, it brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for the upload[:

[amishmike1]

05:37 He's stomping out Belize LOL