![]() Category 5 hurricane, 27.3bn in damage as of 1992, 65 people died, the peopl. Weather map from the 21st | Satelite image | Newspaper headline | Newspaper article | #2 | Andrew page | Newspaper headline | Animated radar from the hurricane research division. Credit goes to Force Thirteen for the Music and NOAA for the satellite imagery. People from Broward & Palm Bch Counties convoyed help & donations to the needy.Help poured in from all over the country from small towns to large corporations.Following a track slightly to the east of Carol, Hurricane Edna barreled up. President Bush announces 300 million dollars of aid for Fema assistance The worst hurricanes to hit Massachusetts from 1900-2000, in reverse date.Tropicana sent 3,200 cases of juice & 6 water tankers.Likes brothers donated 100,000 hot dogs.Many local grocers as well as fast food restaurants donated food.22,000 U.S Military Troops,the largest U.S military operation ever in this country.Supplied by the military within 1 week 98 helicopters,1,300 vehicles,1,333 tents enought to house 27,000 people,30 portable kitchens,100,000 blankets,38,500 cots,.Free meals seved within 10 days 1.7 million.Avaro Pedican & beverly Moss no ages,flying debris,.Tuan Hoang 33 & Sau Van Duong 26 both drowned in Gulf of mexico.Videl Perez 49 & Francisco Sospedra 72,both thrown from trailer.1 week after andrew 300,000 still without power.Saffir-Simpson scale, weakening as it went over the Everglades during its four hour. It moved across the Bahamas and into south Florida as a category 5 hurricane on the. northeast of the Caribbean to a major hurricane as it continued to barrel westward. The focus for the holiday weekend distress is an area of low pressure forming along the Florida coast at the tail-end of a cold front. Since there was a remote possibility that Andrew might affect Florida, Bryan Norcross decided to premiere a new cone-like graphic to talk about the uncertainty in the track forecast. In 42 hours, Andrew had strengthen from essentially a strong tropical wave. By WeatherBug Meteorologist, Andrew Rosenthal Although it isn’t quite hurricane season, the Atlantic tropics might be in the mood to create some trouble this Memorial Day weekend. ![]() 41 killed as a direct result of the storm Hurricane Andrew timeline: On this day, August 19, 1992.14% of Dade County residents temporarily unemployed.calls to police before Andrew 1,500 per day & after andrew 6,000 per day.After the storm phone systems overwhelmed with 80,000 calls per minute.In Homestead 7,500 families left homeless out of 26,000.Directly after Andrew 1.3million without electricity.8% of all Florida agriculture destroyed.7 million fish killed due to depleted oxygen in waterways.25,000 gallons of oil spilled into Biscayne Bay.Obliterated 102 miles of power lines & 300 towers.The following statistics are from the aftermath of the 2nd most costly natural disaster in U.S history behind Katrina 2005 Winds at landfall 165mph gusts to 180mph,10 mile wide eye,16.9ft storm surgeīriefly hit winds of 170mph just east of Eleuthera island (recon)
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