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HURRICANE ANDREW AUG 24TH 1992

Winds at landfall 165mph gusts to 180mph,10 mile wide eye,16.9ft storm surge
Highest unofficial gust 178mph
Briefly hit winds of 170mph just east of Eleuthera island (recon)

The following statistics are from the aftermath of the 2nd most costly natural disaster in U.S history behind Katrina 2005

**The damage**

  • Obliterated 102 miles of power lines & 300 towers
  • 25,000 gallons of oil spilled into Biscayne Bay
  • 7 million fish killed due to depleted oxygen in waterways
  • 8% of all Florida agriculture destroyed
  • 300 square miles of total devestation
  • Directly after Andrew 1.3million without electricity
  • 2,200 traffic lights destroyed
  • 90%of small businesses destroyed
  • 1 Billion dollars damage in Louisiana
  • 25 Billion dollars damage in Florida
  • In Homestead 80% of homes destroyed
  • 10,000 acres of nurseries ruined
  • 100,000 homes damaged
  • 63,000 homes badly damaged

    The People affected

  • In Homestead 7,500 families left homeless out of 26,000
  • After the storm phone systems overwhelmed with 80,000 calls per minute
  • calls to police before Andrew 1,500 per day & after andrew 6,000 per day
  • 14% of Dade County residents temporarily unemployed
  • 300,000 homeless right after the storm
  • 41 killed as a direct result of the storm
  • 140,000 unemployed in Florida
  • 1 week after andrew 300,000 still without power
  • Naomi Browning 12,hit by beam
  • Videl Perez 49 & Francisco Sospedra 72,both thrown from trailer
  • Robert Moak 32,drowned
  • Miguel Pulido 62,crushed
  • Andrew Roberts 30,crushed
  • Claude Owens 46,neck injury
  • Robert Ramos 40,hit by flying degris
  • Gladys Porter 91,crushed
  • Mary Cowan 67,crushed
  • Harry Boyer 67,crushed
  • Jesse James 46,crushed
  • Natividad Rohena 57,crushed
  • Tommy Van 36,drowned
  • Herbert Engleman 55,lightning
  • John Byers 22,head injury
  • Henry Bush 41,hit by debris
  • Carlos Cabrera 63,tornado
  • Jessica Tomlinson 20,head injuries
  • Tuan Hoang 33 & Sau Van Duong 26 both drowned in Gulf of mexico
  • Telford Neely 16,flying debris
  • Avaro Pedican & beverly Moss no ages,flying debris,
  • Yvonne Cash 37,drowned
  • Many others not listed

    Relief & assistance

  • Free meals seved within 10 days 1.7 million
  • 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,
  • 65 million dollars spent by red cross
  • 7,000 national guard troops
  • 22,000 U.S Military Troops,the largest U.S military operation ever in this country
  • Many local grocers as well as fast food restaurants donated food
  • Likes brothers donated 100,000 hot dogs
  • Tropicana sent 3,200 cases of juice & 6 water tankers
  • President Bush announces 300 million dollars of aid for Fema assistance
  • Help poured in from all over the country from small towns to large corporations
  • People from Broward & Palm Bch Counties convoyed help & donations to the needy.
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