My Great Aunt lived in Fort Lauderdale, right close to Homestead. I couldn't find her anywhere. She's was 85 and all alone. Finally, after about a week I got phones service to her area but no Aunt Elizabeth. I was absolutely ready to get on a jet and go find her. Talk about freaky deakly Recky, suddenly someone answered the phone. It was a lasted whose phone I had reached. We realized that the storm had messed with the phone lines and getting him was just dumb luck. I told him I was looking for my great Aunt. He asked where she lived and informed me he was quite close to the place. We took a chance and disconnected while he ran through the wrecked neighborhood until he FOUND her house!! He told her what he was doing banging on her door and why he was looking for her.... Her niece was in California, hysterically looking for her! She said the bathtub wasn't the best place to SLEEP but it did in a pinch. The pastor arranged for meals to be delivered, blankets, dry clothes and anything she needed. He was like an angel! What a strange way to go about locating a little old lady after Andrew. Thank God for that man. I don't know how long it would have been before someone found her!! good one Recky!

Andrew was a wind event, Katrina was a water event

I lived in Ft. Lauderdale for 30 years and went through Andrew as well as many many more. We did not get it as bad as Homestead, but we too were using mattresses to cover the windows. The National Hurricane Center took a direct hit. It was a terrifying hurricane to say the least. I thank God we made it through.

Sadly, this is what Carriacou, Grenada received today. Andrew was like a 50 mile wide f3 tonado. The water wasn't the issue with Andrew, so that damage was all wind. Very intense.

I live in the Louisiana. We have a saying, If Jim Cantore shows up in your neighborhood before a hurricane, EVACUATE!!!!!!! The hurricane is coming to your neighborhood.

Native Floridian, West Gulf Coast here. Been thru so many storms in my 45 years alive. This years season is already off to a crazy start.

Andrew was a standout storm in multiple ways. It was only the third Category 5 hurricane to make a U.S. landfall and the most recent one until Michael in 2018. Unlike many hurricanes, it caused much more wind damage than storm surge damage. It behaved like a giant tornado, and it rewrote building codes in Florida. Miami was EXTREMELY lucky to have not been in the eyewall; the damage would have likely left it as crippled as the 1900 hurricane left Galveston.

The aftermath of Andrew was worse than the storm itself. No help, No rescue, No food, No water. Took weeks before responding. Then 90% of relief went to Miami.

This is why Andrew is never used again for a hurricane name.

Andrew permanently changed the hurricane building codes. It closed Homestead Air Force Base.

Hurricanes have their own personality not one is ever the same as the other

I'm from Homestead fl, I still have panic attacks watching the footage 😢

The best way to describe the 1992 Atlantic Hurricane Season as a whole:

Hurricane Andrew was the first storm I can actually remember going through as a kid living in Louisiana. I was 6 years old....

I was 12 when Andrew hit our area. It was like a nuclear bomb went off. We were lucky, and our house survived.

At least that kitty made it.

My Mom, husband and myself had an art teacher we were using (we live in Alabama). She and her husband had a condo down there. When they were told to evacuate, her husband was adamant about protecting their condo. So, their daughter said she would stay with him, while our teacher took the motor home and the grandkids and went north. It was so bad, that her husband and daughter finally had to get into a closet and had their backs to the door just to keep the door vertical. From what I remember the condo was totaled. He also had heart problems and should never have stayed behind. When the weather people tell you to evacuate, do! Your life is way more important than some house!

I’ve been in 100 mph winds and I can’t imagine winds double that speed

How absolutely stupid for a family with a child with asthma that's brought on by stress to try to stay and ride out a cat 5 hurricane!! That's just absolutely insanity!!!!

During the Andrew i was in hospital, in labour for my first child watching the news. My baby was born at 2:27am and Andrew landfall was at 4:52am. My second same situation but it was Gordon. No neither got named for the hurricanes 😊.