As a roofer here in Florida, Andrew was the storm that changed everything. From the way we reenforce our concrete slabs to the way we frame the way we roof all the way down to the siding on the home. It all now has to meet Florida wind codes. None of that existed pre Andrew, and it showed.
I always wanted to know what was required before and after, but never could find that info. I know it's 6 nails now per shingle. When I was getting a new roof I sat in the house counting the 6 shots of the nail gun per shingle. I can say they did it right!
My family and I survived this hurricane all huddled together in the corner of my uncles friends house, I was an infant at the time, it’s a miracle that I’m typing this as many people died in the neighborhood and we miraculously survived all huddled together. Bit emotional to see this.
I moved to S. Florida in 2007 from NC and just recently moved back to NC this year. I was 11 years old in 1992 and I remember hearing about Andrew back then. I do remember experiencing Hugo 3 years earlier in 1989 which was a rough experience. However those first couple years living in S. Florida, people were telling me the horror stories about Andrew and I learned it was much worse than what I thought years earlier. Because of that, I took hurricane season very seriously. Every year I was down there, I didn't look forward to hurricane season. However, I feel so blessed that we did not have to go through an Andrew-like storm between '07 and '22 (even though there were a few scares over the years, especially Irma) But I do pray for those living in FL that they don't have to go through something like that ever again.
Yeah here in Pennsylvania we got hit by Sandy and remnants of Ida flooding issue I recorded remnants of Ida but not Sandy because I don't have a phone. Both storms were shocking because our detention pond was likely to overflow. Remnants of Ida: I had to move a mower in the shed hours before the storm hit us.
Charley "made a last minute turn to Orlando and those folks lost power for weeks at a time"??? What about the people in Fort Myers / Port Charlotte that got stomped by it??? I was actually in college at UCF when Charley hit us, and even though it wasn't a super powerful CAT 4 when it hit us, it really did some serious damage. Orlando definitely isn't built to withstand hurricanes (or at least it wasn't when I was there). My parents, family, and friends all lived in Fort Myers and they got smoked! I moved back down to SWFL after college and we got hit by Irma back in 2017 and more recently Ian. I've been through quite a few hurricanes in my life, but I have never been through anything even close to Ian. Charley was moving at 24 MPH and had a 10 mile radius of hurricane force winds. In comparisson, Ian was moving at 8-9 MPH with a 45 mile radius of hurricane force winds. I was living at ground zero for both storms and I can tell you Ian was WAY worse! Crazy stuff! I hope anyone and everyone that had their lives affected by a hurricane pulls through and comes out stronger on the other side!
I was 9 years old woke up due to the sound and ended up sleeping in the bathroom and waking up in the bathroom at my adopted sister house in Kendall my child home was in Quail Roost here in Miami Dade I am proud to be a Floridian
My parents had just sold the family house in the Keys and bought in Brevard County when Frances and Jeanne hit Stuart an hr & 1/2 away causing significant damage. My father said if someone had told him he was going to get hit with 2 hurricanes 3 weeks apart, he would have told them they were crazy🤪
When Andrew hit South Miami it was horrifying because A lot of insurance companies took off up north they desive Miami than years after they came back and started hiping the insurance price on homes and now days you pay more insurance prices then any where else
I rmb that may i was in 5th grade at Pineville elementary in miami goulds we went on a field trip to lakes by the bay homes 3 months later every home was destroyed
I was 5 years old living in my homestate of California when hurricane andrew hit south florida when my older sister moved to miami in april of 92 and it was not too pretty during hurricane andrew
I experienced the high whistling sounds like a train in a hiding closed with 2 other people and listening to the 📻 radio. In the earlier morning we lost the hurricane tower connection due to damage. We did not know in which direction was the hurricane going because by that time we figure it out that it change path .We were riding in West Palm Beach and still was very intense. No shutters at that time . We thought the winds will blow up . When I drove down 75 south to griffin road all the trees looked like a Halloween movie they were broken or gone . I always respected the warning after that and took seriously the warning of evacuation if authorities tell you to . You do not know what a hurricane is capable of doing .
I am seriously disappointed at the kinds of construction I've been seeing on Google Satellite and Google Street View in the exact area that was hit directly by Andrew's eyewall. The extreme vast majority of residences in that whole same area (Kendall, Homestead, and all in between) have gable roofs with big broad overhangs and slopes as shallow as 10 to 15 degrees! What we call airplane wing roofs just waiting to lift off in the next hurricane. Plus when 100+ mph winds hit that gable end and pushes up on that overhang, it can literally just peel the roof completely off like peeling tape off a window. And putting those X-braces does little good; I've seen many cases in which the trusses stayed on, but plywood decking peeled off, starting at a gable end, with only the wooden skeleton of the roof left on top of the house in many cases in Andrew, Charley, and other storms. I'm also seeing mobile home park in those same areas, too. Mobile home parks. What we call hurricane disasters waiting to happen.
100 plus? Andrew was producing 200 plus mph gusts and consistently at 165-175 mph sustained. Not much you can build to withstand that. Especially if the windows blow out. There's an instant massive pressure drop when that happens. It's not "just wind".
@@Trahzy From the kind of damage caused by shoddy construction and with all those gable roofs with shallow slopes and big overhangs, anyone could be forgiven for saying that to them, Andrew was producing sustained winds of 250 to 275 miles per hour with gusts even topping 325 mph.
I miss my Moms house in Boynton Beach , they went through so much from 88-07. The saltwater fish tanks vehicle after vehicle. Beaches washed away seaweed shells .
I evacuated Key Largo to Coral Gables. Tibidabo Ave is above the tidal surge but still had a some roof and tree damage. I have an image..but see no way to post it easily.
Yeah I'd used to live in Miami at that time My kids were small and All that I could do it was try to keep the calm our place started shaking and my place had 22" inches of walls it sounded like a freak train I'd had mango tree and cherry tree that been there for 45 years and the worst thing was that FPL called Us I was working for in contract with FPL tree trimming we were in swamp city you see the snake's and gators just swimming by us we worked nights and days none stop
Lol. Lost credibility when you tried to link "higher sea levels" to the "more $ damage". News flash....real estate is more expensive today than in 1992. All else being equal, the same storm with the same track would at least damage more than 2x the amount in terms of $. It's called monetary inflation. Look it up.
As a roofer here in Florida, Andrew was the storm that changed everything. From the way we reenforce our concrete slabs to the way we frame the way we roof all the way down to the siding on the home. It all now has to meet Florida wind codes. None of that existed pre Andrew, and it showed.
I always wanted to know what was required before and after, but never could find that info. I know it's 6 nails now per shingle. When I was getting a new roof I sat in the house counting the 6 shots of the nail gun per shingle. I can say they did it right!
My family and I survived this hurricane all huddled together in the corner of my uncles friends house, I was an infant at the time, it’s a miracle that I’m typing this as many people died in the neighborhood and we miraculously survived all huddled together. Bit emotional to see this.
I moved to S. Florida in 2007 from NC and just recently moved back to NC this year. I was 11 years old in 1992 and I remember hearing about Andrew back then. I do remember experiencing Hugo 3 years earlier in 1989 which was a rough experience. However those first couple years living in S. Florida, people were telling me the horror stories about Andrew and I learned it was much worse than what I thought years earlier. Because of that, I took hurricane season very seriously. Every year I was down there, I didn't look forward to hurricane season. However, I feel so blessed that we did not have to go through an Andrew-like storm between '07 and '22 (even though there were a few scares over the years, especially Irma) But I do pray for those living in FL that they don't have to go through something like that ever again.
Yeah here in Pennsylvania we got hit by Sandy and remnants of Ida flooding issue I recorded remnants of Ida but not Sandy because I don't have a phone. Both storms were shocking because our detention pond was likely to overflow. Remnants of Ida: I had to move a mower in the shed hours before the storm hit us.
@Will B To be closer to our families.
J7u
Ian is here
It's going to happen again just a matter of time
Charley "made a last minute turn to Orlando and those folks lost power for weeks at a time"??? What about the people in Fort Myers / Port Charlotte that got stomped by it??? I was actually in college at UCF when Charley hit us, and even though it wasn't a super powerful CAT 4 when it hit us, it really did some serious damage. Orlando definitely isn't built to withstand hurricanes (or at least it wasn't when I was there). My parents, family, and friends all lived in Fort Myers and they got smoked!
I moved back down to SWFL after college and we got hit by Irma back in 2017 and more recently Ian. I've been through quite a few hurricanes in my life, but I have never been through anything even close to Ian. Charley was moving at 24 MPH and had a 10 mile radius of hurricane force winds. In comparisson, Ian was moving at 8-9 MPH with a 45 mile radius of hurricane force winds. I was living at ground zero for both storms and I can tell you Ian was WAY worse!
Crazy stuff! I hope anyone and everyone that had their lives affected by a hurricane pulls through and comes out stronger on the other side!
I was 9 years old woke up due to the sound and ended up sleeping in the bathroom and waking up in the bathroom at my adopted sister house in Kendall my child home was in Quail Roost here in Miami Dade I am proud to be a Floridian
My parents had just sold the family house in the Keys and bought in Brevard County when Frances and Jeanne hit Stuart an hr & 1/2 away causing significant damage. My father said if someone had told him he was going to get hit with 2 hurricanes 3 weeks apart, he would have told them they were crazy🤪
When Andrew hit South Miami it was horrifying because A lot of insurance companies took off up north they desive Miami than years after they came back and started hiping the insurance price on homes and now days you pay more insurance prices then any where else
I rmb that may i was in 5th grade at Pineville elementary in miami goulds we went on a field trip to lakes by the bay homes 3 months later every home was destroyed
I was 23 when andrew hit .i lived around mercy hospital..28days without power
I was a Kendall kid. 147th and Bird. Lakes of the Meadows. I was 9 years old. I remember everything.
I lived in Kendall for this.
I was 5 years old living in my homestate of California when hurricane andrew hit south florida when my older sister moved to miami in april of 92 and it was not too pretty during hurricane andrew
Andrew was the costliest Atlantic hurricane at the time, but it has fallen to the 9th costliest
But power not to be confused
I experienced the high whistling sounds like a train in a hiding closed with 2 other people and listening to the 📻 radio. In the earlier morning we lost the hurricane tower connection due to damage. We did not know in which direction was the hurricane going because by that time we figure it out that it change path .We were riding in West Palm Beach and still was very intense. No shutters at that time . We thought the winds will blow up . When I drove down 75 south to griffin road all the trees looked like a Halloween movie they were broken or gone . I always respected the warning after that and took seriously the warning of evacuation if authorities tell you to . You do not know what a hurricane is capable of doing .
Tornadoes spin off causing more damage
Then Hurricane Ian came and became the deadliest Hurricane since the Labor Day Hurricane.
Well, mostly because people didn't evacuate and drowned. Which wasn't very smart living right on the water.
I am seriously disappointed at the kinds of construction I've been seeing on Google Satellite and Google Street View in the exact area that was hit directly by Andrew's eyewall. The extreme vast majority of residences in that whole same area (Kendall, Homestead, and all in between) have gable roofs with big broad overhangs and slopes as shallow as 10 to 15 degrees! What we call airplane wing roofs just waiting to lift off in the next hurricane. Plus when 100+ mph winds hit that gable end and pushes up on that overhang, it can literally just peel the roof completely off like peeling tape off a window. And putting those X-braces does little good; I've seen many cases in which the trusses stayed on, but plywood decking peeled off, starting at a gable end, with only the wooden skeleton of the roof left on top of the house in many cases in Andrew, Charley, and other storms. I'm also seeing mobile home park in those same areas, too. Mobile home parks. What we call hurricane disasters waiting to happen.
100 plus? Andrew was producing 200 plus mph gusts and consistently at 165-175 mph sustained. Not much you can build to withstand that. Especially if the windows blow out. There's an instant massive pressure drop when that happens. It's not "just wind".
@@Trahzy From the kind of damage caused by shoddy construction and with all those gable roofs with shallow slopes and big overhangs, anyone could be forgiven for saying that to them, Andrew was producing sustained winds of 250 to 275 miles per hour with gusts even topping 325 mph.
I’ll be 31 this month, my life could have been taken by this storm but here I am.
Ill never forget that sob
I was born on that day
... And when they asked your mother for a name, she looked up and said, "Andrew Roderick Smith".
Thank God, that some of the people had made through the Storm!
Amazing! Keep up the great work🎉
I miss my Moms house in Boynton Beach , they went through so much from 88-07. The saltwater fish tanks vehicle after vehicle. Beaches washed away seaweed shells .
I evacuated Key Largo to Coral Gables. Tibidabo Ave is above the tidal surge but still had a some roof and tree damage. I have an image..but see no way to post it easily.
Back then I was not living in the USA. So I have never experienced Andrew, but I heard horror stories about him.
Thinking about moving to Pensacola? Should I??
"calvary"
Andrew dropped many tornadoes as well imagine a tornado in a hurricane
They are quite common in hurricanes, the eastern side of the storm, the northeastern quadrant of the storm, aka the dirty side of the storm.
Worked on a casino ship.. The Ocean Jewel during the 2004 hurricane season ! Crazy !
Yeah, changed the building codes for the better after at least a decade of slack construction ethics. Don't buy anything built in the 80's
Yeah I'd used to live in Miami at that time My kids were small and All that I could do it was try to keep the calm our place started shaking and my place had 22" inches of walls it sounded like a freak train I'd had mango tree and cherry tree that been there for 45 years and the worst thing was that FPL called Us I was working for in contract with FPL tree trimming we were in swamp city you see the snake's and gators just swimming by us we worked nights and days none stop
Lol. Lost credibility when you tried to link "higher sea levels" to the "more $ damage". News flash....real estate is more expensive today than in 1992. All else being equal, the same storm with the same track would at least damage more than 2x the amount in terms of $. It's called monetary inflation. Look it up.
Why don’t we discuss the newborns born ?
Hurricane Andrew Tate 😏
Andrew did not teach FL residents anything, now they will learn harder with Ian....Fl is not a place to live!
Or California, or Tornado Alley..