The Wrath of Hurricane Andrew: Tragedy and Triumph 30 Years | Full Episode
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- Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2022
- Three decades ago, renowned hurricane specialist Bryan Norcross did a 23-hour marathon broadcast as Hurricane Andrew slammed into the Florida coast. His broadcast was the only one to stay on the air and many people’s only link to the outside world during the worst of the storm. He is credited with saving countless lives due to his life-saving advice. Now 30 years later Bryan will re-live the storm that devastated South Florida and look at the infrastructure changes that resulted. #foxweather #hurricaneandrew
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I want to thank Brian Norcross for making this documentary. Brought tears to my eyes
I survived Andrew as well. Our house was on 152nd Street/89th court, off of Coral Reef Drive. All the homes were destroyed, apartment buildings were razed by tornados. I remember driving back down from Fort Lauderdale the next day, and trying to take the route through the Grove, and that was impassable, because there were boats and yachts IN THE STREET, and the banyan trees were toppled over, and I had to backtrack out and take US1 South. And from Downtown driving south, the farther you got, the less that was left standing. Later we drove to Homestead, Cutler Ridge Mall was in ruins, and looters were taking whatever they could get their hands on. When we got to Homestead, it was a cathartic disaster. Like downtown Homestead had been blown off the map, and all that was left were match sticks in piles all over the place. My parents were in Connecticut, and I surveyed the destroyed house, then drove back north to call them and tell them not to come home, because they did not have a home to come back to. I gave them a list of things to get (food/a generator/CASH/etc. ) and ship on the plane down a few days later, once I secured what was left of our house. ( 1 room ) The rest of the house was water logged and flooded and the roof was in tatters. When they arrived back in Miami, I was at the house waiting for them, and my father got out of the car and fell to his knees and sobbed. We had a 50 foot silver oak tree outside my bedroom window that was pulled up out of the ground and dropped on the house next door, destroying it in one drop. Our patio screening was mangled and dropped unceremoniously into the pool. There was an apartment building behind our house that backed onto US 1, and when the tornado came through it razed the building to the ground, there was nothing left but bricks and cement blocks piled everywhere. My friend Cory's mom lived in that building and she was devastated too. In time my parents got a FEMA trailer to live in while the house was rebuilt. Metro Zoo was destroyed and animals were walking the streets. We slept in cars at the top of the streets with loaded guns to protect from looters, because that was a HUGE problem for a long time. It was living hell for a very long time.
Andrew was a horrible Hurricane. It took so much away from people. There entire lives were turned upside down. FEMA could not handle the scale of the operation needed to restore lives. It was just a heartbreaking tragedy.
My mom visited Florida and the Keys when the hurrican alert broke loose. she said this was the weirdest experiencd ever, since we dont have this in Europe. People were so helpful and nice in the states. they told her it woulc probably not hit homestead but she decided never the less to leave and drive up into the country. the drive was horrible she said bc of the rain and strong winds. later on she saw on tv the places she had seen that were devastated… she hopes even today that everyone who she talked to and lived in the area that was hit is fine. so yeah when she told me about this as a kid i imagined the worst and i am happy to have seen this report on it. thank you
While I know sandy was freaking out, I admire how calmly she reassured her kids. What a strong momma!
We rode it out under the mattress in Country Walk, I thought we were all dead. I was 22 and boarded the house up with plywood borrowed from an unfinished weitzer home, couldn't get it anywhere else. The home we borrowed it from was leveled to the slab. 30 years later and none of us who went through this from homestead to 152 will never forget it. I am in Deland now and pray we never go through this again. President Bush came 2 weeks later and FEMA totally dropped the ball. It was like Hiroshima. Combat vets never saw this in any bombing campaign. It was a 3 hour tornado and terrible. Miraculous that thousands didn't die.
My daughter was born at Homestead AFB, Andrew was a monster,
I was 9 years old when Hurricane Andrew rolled in. Probably the wildest, scariest night I'd gone through at the time.
I was 13, in Westchester, Coral Way and 87th. We didn't get electricity back for about five or six weeks. It was so hot inside the house. My brothers and I would crawl out the window of my bedroom, to sleep on the roof of the garage.
The day after Andrew hit, there was no electricity anywhere. I remember looking up at the sky, and without the lights from the city, the sky was nothing but stars! For some reason, that is what I will always remember.
I was 10 in cutler ridge. Evacuated to a family friends house near the zoo. That house got hit worse than ours. Wont ever forget that night
The older couples story was amazing and the recording was pure horror you could hear as their house was falling apart all around them and they still had a long way to go their lucky to be alive
They were in a previous documentary that can also be found if you look up Hurricane Andrew. I think it was from 2012 but I do wonder what happened to the husband of the couple since he looked more healthier then than he does now. Their story is incredible!
wonderful documentary, especially for those of us that were here in South Florida during Andrew. I remember the front page of The Miami Herald the day before : "The Big One". Says it all.
Super interesting video. Well done.
Andrew was like a giant buzzsaw just think a Cat 5 hurricane with 165 mph winds is hitting your home from all sides along with f2 and f3 tornados mixed in it was a nightmare
Luckily, I was living in NYC during this. I was born and raised in Miami.
It’s not the hurricane. It’s the people that come afterwards. You Loot we Pew.
Why do so many of these Anchors look like they spend all day rolling in a bath full of Doritos? 🤔
the wraith of hurricane Andrew
I was only 2
Why Ron is talking in this video like he’s a meteorologist?!🤷🏻♀️
I was a insurance adjuster for Andrew, spent 4 months spending insurance companies money and had 13 insurance companies go broke in the deal. The state of Florida still owes me for working those claims, $10K ! Lying SOBs!
Oh have things changed from this. We should go back to those landlines they were pretty good. Folks calling up the news channel during the hurricane that's pretty damn good we can't even get our 5G smartphones to work they're not too smart turn hurricane in which was a cat-5 as well none of our smartphones worked
How does this compare to Katrina
Katrina hit a city that was already under the water table. Then the governor (Blanco) of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans were clueless about what to do before and after the storm. Democrats in Washington D.C. used to it gain more "victims" and the media used it to bash the Republicans. Andrew got taken care of by competent state. There was not any drama to sell in the following years.
Katrina was most notable for the levee breaches in New Orleans. Andrew was the most perfectly destructive hurricane. It destroyed a huge area of south Florida. It had been 20 years or so since anything that bad had happened. It was widely believed that President Bush 41, lost the election because of the terrible Federal response to Andrew.
We had cellular phones, but not e everyone did.
Can I ask why they have a Zoo? And if you can't get a mongoose why can you have Cobras? It's how the Everglades has a Python problem. A couple of snakes and a hurricane. Get an aquarium. I just saw this on TV, and if it was frightening for the humans imagine what it was like for animals that have the intelligence of a 3 year old child. Speaks volumes about what kind of people you are.
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