A Swede reacts to: Hurricane Andrew

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[@randallducote8110]

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.

[@JEFFwasHERE...]

That's how we felt when we saw him show up in Biloxi before hurricane Katrina

[@NoChance797]

Imagine Jim Cantore going on vocation. Everyone evacuates. "Man, this place sure is quite and nothing seems to be open. Weird".

[@kyarilee]

Andrew was a wind event, Katrina was a water event

[@miamidolphinsfan]

Not here in South Fla....Katrina was more of a wind event. Many people forget that Katrina was a tropical depression in the Bahamas that moring but became a category 1 hurricane as it came on shore just south of Ft Lauderdale. We had about 30 minutes of really bad winds, later we were told around 80 mph but it was enough....no power for 8 days, but 2 months later Wilma came through and knocked out power for 15 days in October

[@Stepperg1]

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!

[@kimharding2246]

Wow! I’m so happy she was found and OK. God was watching over her, for sure!

[@petermiller4953]

Dude(I don't care if you're female for the "dude", lol), you were truly blessed indeed to get lucky like that! I ain't religious, but I still say amen to your fortune!

[@miamidolphinsfan]

Excuse me, but Ft Lauderdale IS NOWHERE NEAR HOMESTEAD. It's about 65 to 70 miles north of Homestead. How do I know I used to live in Cutler Ridge, about 10 miles north of Homestead. If anyone reading this wants to hear my Andrew survival story I have a video on my channel with my survival story.

[@ClefairyRox]

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.

[@SaltyPug]

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.

[@maryslack6169]

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

[@rj-zz8im]

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.

[@charlayned]

I've been praying for those caught in that one. We're 15 miles from Galveston and we're watching carefully. They're starting to forecast a turn to the east, maybe raking the Texas coast, which means we might get it (I hope not).

[@AC-ni4gt]

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

[@jop4649]

The best way to describe the 1992 Atlantic Hurricane Season as a whole: "It takes just one." The 1992 Atlantic Hurricane Season was not a very active season due to unfavorable conditions for most of the Atlantic. Hurricane Andrew had struggled to maintain itself when it was crossing the Atlantic, it could have dissipated at different points, but it managed to keep going until it moved toward southern Florida. Andrew was pretty unique for being a small hurricane compared to other category-5 hurricanes.

[@kristy143]

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.

[@lisagood6805]

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

[@MommaBird52]

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

[@damonbryan7232]

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.

[@JEFFwasHERE...]

Sounds kind of like what happen in Louisian years later

[@sharcrum]

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!!!!

[@SueK51]

When the officials tell you to go, you'd better damned well GO!!!

[@psychokitty7268]

I've seen many. I would definitely evacuate for a cat 5. I've stayed for cat 4s.

[@kimbenton5166]

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!

[@ladolcevitafl]

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

[@dark_sunshinedgc]

My old supervisor worked property claims in Homestead right after Andrew, she said they were just writing checks left and right because the homes she adjusted for were all obliterated. My sis and her family were living at that base up to shortly before Andrew. They dodged a bullet , a big one more than likely.

[@connniet3049]

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 😊.

[@LazyDaze86]

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

[@MaryM-xz5fs]

I lived in Homestead in 1978 - 1979 during military deployment. During Andrew, I was at Grand Bahama Island, due east of Homestead. Rode it out safely!

[@tazjammer]

Fort Myers here. Charley, Francis, Ivan, Jean. Wilma, Irma, and Ian. Was very near eyewall of Charley in 2004. Lived downtown in 2022 for Ian. 4' water on 1st street. A devastating video is the 15ft of Storm Surge washing away house on Ft Myers Beach. Thankfully, the couple that were inside lived.

[@davidterry6155]

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

[@davidterry6155]

20:27 Recky I believe this why in general Americans are so apt to help others in times of crisis. We never know if we will be the next one affected by a natural disaster

[@ScreamingYellowMach]

I recommend watching the Storm Stories episode of Hurricane Ike from 2008. It's a really good episode.

[@randalparks9648]

Recky: On Columbus Day 1962 (Oct 12) there was a wind storm in Western Oregon and Washington states. Not a hurricane, this was a straight line wind, but gusts were over 100mph, and we wound up having a whole 100 foot tall Douglas Fir tree lying across the front of our house - not ON it, but touching. My point is, as scary as the Columbus Day Storm was, there was no rain, and not that much damage (power WAS out for a week). I cannot IMAGINE what it was like riding out Andrew. I mean, we've had ONE big storm in my lifetime (I'm 71) and that was enough! The Gulf Coast gets storms like sometimes 4 and 5 times PER YEAR. Our earthquakes and volcanoes seem much more ... user friendly (?) than hurricanes!

[@robertofernandez7773]

Andrew also changed the building code for the city of miami. Newer Buildings are like bunkers now. However we still have lots of older buildings that are not as sturdy.

[@psychokitty7268]

My brother and I both went south from West Palm Beach to volunteer. On his trip down to Miami (I was in Perrine), he saw an RV wrapped around a concrete pole - about 10 feet off the ground.

[@kimharding2246]

Yes, it was a bad one. And now, my mind is on Hurricane Beryl… say prayers for all the people down there in the Caribbean… It looks like another bad one. 🙏

[@aliciamartin2024]

Recky. I worked as a police dispatcher for Metro-Dade police. I worked this storm and it's aftermath. South Florida in the dead of summer! Ice trucks were being sent with bags of ice and people were storming the trucks. I left shortly after and never went back. Our true hero was Brian Norcross a then local weatherman who was like family because he stayed on air telling people what to do. It lasted ALL NIGHT and the windows bowed and the wind just howled!

[@stellaandes759]

The home we rented was just north of Homestead. It was totaled, and it was for sale for $20K after that. We had moved from there 17 months before Andrew hit. Our friends and neighbors from South Florida all lost their homes. Many sent their children to live with relatives in states north of there while they rebuilt their homes. Many more left Dade County. In 1994 several families who had relocated to Utah held a Miami party. One couple showed videos they had taken of the devastation. One woman said, "Go back. that was our house!" She and her husband and children had been living in South Korea because of his job when Andrew hit. They said they would forever sing the praises of State Farm Insurance. We had key lime cake as a dessert. Our family went back to visit in 1997, and much progress had been made.

[@babyboomermemories6150]

My husband's cousin and his wife lived in Homestead. He was based at Homestead Air Force Base. After Andrew, the whole apartment complex where they lived was destroyed. The base was nearly wiped off the face of the earth. Thankfully, they left and were ok. But yeah, Andrew was a beast.

[@eileensquirrely9880]

In January of 1992 my boyfriend, at that time, had the great idea to move from Upstate NY to South Florida. We picked a place in FL to go to and it happened to be Homestead. In Feb. we packed up and headed south. When we got to Homestead and saw how small it was, we started going more north. We ended up in Lake Worth (50 miles north of Miami and just outside of West Palm Beach). When we first started seeing the estimated path that Andrew was going to follow, it was coming right at us. A day before it dipped more south. We got lots of wind, but we were on the edge and 3 miles from the coast so little damage other than tree branches. For a couple months after, we opened our apartment to housing some cats and dogs for free for those that needed a hand boarding them while they found a place to live. In 1997 I came back to Upstate NY where a Hurricane just means we will get the tail end which is just a day of rain.

[@JEFFwasHERE...]

Andrew was a very severe wind event. That's what made it really rough on these people for the second half of the storm is because the second half of the storm blows from the opposite direction

[@connienunez2405]

Andrew came within miles of us in Zachary, Louisiana north of Baton Rouge... no major damage but no electric for over a week

[@slumberlisa]

I lived in Baton Rouge at the time. I was in my 20's and was renting a house with a bunch of friends. I remember sitting in the front living room, which had hurricane windows, watching things fly by!

[@LazyDaze86]

I was 6 years old growing up in North Baton Rouge. Andrew was the first hurricane I actually remember.

[@slumberlisa]

@@LazyDaze86 Wow! What a memory!

[@slumberlisa]

I was living on Nicholson and Van Buren

[@tricitymorte1]

I grew in southwest Florida, about 100 miles south of Tampa, on the Gulf coast. We didn't get hit directly by Andrew, but we did still get a bit of wind, and we got dumped on. Everything was completely flooded for about a week, meaning toilets couldn't be flushed, and we had to find bottled water. I clearly remember a neighbor wading in nearly waist-deep water through our back yard to bring us a couple gallon jugs of water at the start. That was just a couple hours after landfall. It rained non-stop for days. The damage Andrew did in Homestead was devastating, but the damage wasn't limited to there. It was pretty much the entire southern half of the state, to some degree. And you figure, we lived 300 miles from Miami.

[@amandar1262]

I grew up in Ft. Lauderdale. I was 9 years old when Andrew came. It was intense.

[@vivienneclarke2421]

As you know Recky,,I'm in southern New Jersey,where hurricane Sandy hit Me and my 3 teenaged children rode it out,we're inland from the coast closer to the Delaware River,and I'm a crazy prepper,so we didnt worry too much. As it was,we lost electricity for about 2 weeks and tragically 2 teens from my daughters high school lost their lives when their car was swept away by the water..... I remember Andrew vividly. I was pregnant with my first child and under strict bedrest. So,I watched the 24/7 news coverage that was on every channel and cried. I lived in southern Florida up until 1991 and had/have many friends there. All were safe,many evacuated

[@laurawendt8471]

Whenever there is a very bad hurricane that name drops in popularity immediately afterwards for a number of years, that’s how serious we take our storms 😢

[@patrickhumphreys5851]

My Brother in-law and sister in-law lived in homestead and that storm scared the crap out of us we live in Central Florida, so close.

[@edithroberts8959]

There was a typhoon in 1970 that hit Kadena Air Base Okinawa. Our house was made of block and stucco. The force of the wind was so bad, it was pushing water through the wall and it was trickling down the inside wall.

[@user-ot5zs9ry9t]

I remember Andrew.

[@user-kb2iv1ts4e]

Hurricane Andrew was in August 24, 1992. My daughters 21st birthday. We live in Broward County and did not get the full brunt of the hurricane. I am glad for us but sad for the people in Homestead, Kindell and all the places it hit full force. It was a really bad one.

[@jbriggsstuff]

I live in the northeast and remember hurricane Maria when I was a little girl. Then we had Sandy. I am moving to the Florida panhandle near Panama City Beach. I will take a Cat 5 hurricane over an F-3 to F-5 any day because for the most part you have ample warning and they don't just form all of the sudden over land.

[@janetgivens3372]

My In-laws lived there at the time of Andrew. My husband and I lived in Clearwater Fl and drove to homestead with a lot of water and canned goods for them and friends that lived there. We had to carry a gun (which I didn't like) because people were stopping cars and robbing people. We got there safely and it really looked like a bomb went off. People were living in military tents and the National Guard was there. Curfew was 8:00 at night no one could be out. My In-laws home suffered damage. I remember my mother-in-law wanted me to sweep the front sidewalk, at the time I felt I could be doing something more productive, but I realized she was in shock and was probably wanting some kind of normalcy. It was very depressing. They had 21 Avocado trees on their property and all were completely gone. However Homestead did come back and looked better than it did before Andrew hit. I'll never forget it.

[@kyarilee]

1992. I remember my boss who was a new transplant to Florida, said see all this hype and we didn't get anything ( we were in Tampa Bay area), I told him it was bad as there was no communication from Homestead and Miami area. I was right

[@AggieMara]

I was going to USF at the time and there were predictions that Tampa could get hit. I was a Resident Assistant at the time in the dorms and I had girls from Miami on my hall. Then, we had an RA conference and the University of Miami RA’s hunkered down in the dorms at some point during the storms the dorms were swaying and the doors to the stairwells were flying open.

[@kenbulut-oe8sb]

My Uncle lived in Perrine and the only surviving flora in his neighborhood was the grass.

[@sharcrum]

I don't understand why anyone would think that it's ok to try and ride out a cat 5 hurricane!!!! And then be surprised at what happens!!!! And then to involve your kids!!!????? Nuts!

[@timothyjohnson5758]

I was at Ft Campbell KY 41st engineers went to Homestesd to help it was a memory I'll never forget

[@Mvtobebo]

Those people are making me feel like they see the warning lights and watch the gate come down and hear the horn blowing and they park on the tracks anyway

[@tech4172]

Tell ya 1 thing it's been so hot and humid in Central fl this season should be a Big one.

[@davidbangtson3109]

This was indeed probably the worst impacting hurricane the US has ever had. And I can remember from that time how much time the news spent on what had happened down there. Every single one of us was just a pulled and so saddened for all of those people, thank you for sharing this with us

[@rickrack4812]

With hurricane Katrina , it was the city government and the state government meaning the governor who had control of the state , not the federal government who delayed took time and refused help or entry of the national guard From other states. It appeared to many people to be that the local democrats just wanted to make.President Bush looked bad in his response when it was really there doing. ...sad. Many poor neighborhoods suffered greatly and people died waiting.

[@OkiePeg411]

I'm up in NE Oklahoma, and we had quite a few Katrina refugees. After several years, most returned to NO.

[@charlayned]

I didn't do Andrew, I'm in S.E. Texas, 15 miles north of Galveston. We had Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 flood everything around us but we found out we're on higher ground than even neighbors three doors down. We left for Rita in 2005, three weeks after Hurricane Katrina (that was an adventure getting out of Friendswood to Killeen Tx usually 5 hours away, to be with friends, took us 17 hours going backroads, took friends a mile from us 32 hours to get there on the interstates). We were here for Ike in 2008 and Harvey in 2017. My husband doesn't want to leave unless it's a strong 4 or a 5. He went through Alicia in 83 also. We're now watching Hurricane Beryl go through the Caribbean and go between a 4 and 5. The forecasts keep moving it a smidge north and I saw two different forecasts that have it crawling the Texas coast toward Louisiana. I'm not amused with that thought at all. I don't want to see another hurricane.

[@karenlobosco9646]

If you can, Recky, see what you can find about Super storm Sandy and its aftermath. Terrific amounts of damage that has changed the way coastal cities prepare for severe storms.

[@MissFreyja]

Hey Recky, I'm half way through the video and was prompted into saying if you are in a flooded home, do not go up into the Attic unless you have a way to get out of the Attic and onto the roof. Too many folk die this way when they are seeking shelter.

[@GentleRain21]

My sister went for 3 weeks without power because of Andrew. I get antsy after a couple of hours without power and can't imagine 3 weeks. I live just 90 miles from her, and we had a windy, rainy day that was rather peaceful. I think a lot of people stayed home from work that day, so the roads were pretty deserted and quiet.

[@AggieMara]

I’m from Florida and remember Hurricane Andrew. It was the first big storm in years. There were a lot of problems in the aftermath. First, the federal government response was really slow. People waited weeks before they brought in the national guard. As a result of Andrew we now have FEMA. And the state governor must declare a state of emergency which gives the feds the right to come in. Now, they do that BEFORE a storm hits. Second, the damage to the homes was horrible. At the time the State and local counties did not have strong building codes. So many of the homes in Homestead just fell apart due to shoddy construction. After Andrew, the Miami-Dade Building Code was created, which eventually the whole State of Florida now follows. You can see the difference in construction and the buildings remaining after Hurricane Ian hit Ft. Myers area. The older buildings get grandfathered in, meaning they don’t have to bring them up to code. Well, those buildings washed away or were seriously damaged. Third, despite the looting, a lot of people did come together to help out. During the 2004-2005 Hurricane Season Florida was hit hard by Charley, Frances, Jeanne, Ivan (2004) and then Katrina (1st landfall was at Fort Lauderdale, it blew up from a Tropical Storm to a Hurricane Cat 1 right before landfall) and then Wilma. As soon as the local stations say it’s a Cat 2 or higher everyone in South Florida makes serious preparations people still have memories of Andrew. As Floridians we kind of joke around about a tropical storm or Cat 1 storm, but we switch serious gears when we know a big one is coming.

[@miamidolphinsfan]

People just like to make shit up...FEMA was established Apr 1st 1979 by President Carter. It was well established by the time Andrew hit. I lived in Cutler Ridge my old address was 19701 Belmont Drive look it up on Google Maps. I got $175,000 from my Insurance 2 days before the company went bankrupt. I was supposed to get $265,000 so I had to apply to get a $100,000 FEMA loan. It took me until 2002 to pay that off, and I had to go back and live with my folks in Westchester (near the Palmetto & Coral Way). So yes I know quite well that FEMA existed years before Andrew hit. Just don't make shit up, it's easy enough to look it up on Google.

[@miamidolphinsfan]

And Andrew was the biggest reason why Clinton won Florida in 1992, because Bush senior fucked up the response to Andrew. Still today people in Miami LOATHE the Bushes because needlessly people died after Andrew because of Bush.

[@pollynicklas5220]

Hurricane Dorian eyewall video in the Bahamas, it's intense.

[@kreg517]

After hurricane Andrew, building codes were altered so construction had to comply with new hurricane standards. I lived in South Florida for two years and survived a hurricane, albeit no where near as strong as Andrew! And that was scary enough! My parents lived through many hurricanes and they were without power for about 3 weeks.

[@enasniec-neicsnoc9591]

I live in the US and because my family didn't exactly stay in one place, I' know about the weather in different parts of it. I feel morally obligated to tell everyone I know who came from a different country about the weather where I'm living. People can really get in trouble underestimating something as simple as cold weather if all they're familiar with is hot. I had a schoolmate who had never experienced a temperate winter before and I gave him the breakdown. Luckily, in his area of the world it can sometimes in some years get that cold during a certain time of year so I was able to give him context. He wasn't quite ready for the snow even after I warned him, but after he got over the shock of it he had a lot of fun sharing the experience with people back home. But yeah, the minute I hear some family friends saying they wanna move different places I usually end up being the killjoy, like 'you know there are tornadoes out there, right?' But I know people who live in these places for decades get slammed sometimes, so I don't wanna leave a newcomer without even a head's up to deal with.

[@user-zj5ny5qs9t]

After crossing Florida, Andrew entered the Gulf of Mexico and 2 days later struck Louisiana. Hurricane Andrew caused 7 deaths and an estimated $1 billion in damages in Louisiana. Combining this with Florida, Andrew directly caused 26 deaths in the U.S. and indirectly caused 39 more, with $27.3 billion in total damages. I live in south Louisiana. Andrew, I remember you well.

[@augiegirl1]

I met my maid of honor (who grew up in San Antonio) in 1999, & her favorite phrase to describe a messy room is “It looks like Hurricane Andrew came through here!”

[@edithroberts8959]

We lived on Homestead Air Force Base. That whole area was completely destroyed.

[@gradypowell5391]

Hey Recky,As An Older Miamian,I Went Thru Hurricane Andrew.Luckily,I Was A Bit Farther North,So While Bad,The Damage Was Nothing Compared To South Miami.

[@edithroberts8959]

Tornadoes along with the wind made the worst possible scenario for Florida.

[@WestTXRedneck1972]

Like I told you before, I grew up on the East Coast of the US and have been thru many hurricanes. The backside of a hurricane is always the worst part. I didn't grow up in Florida but have always wondered how they keep coming back from all the hurricanes I know they got hit with. Now the craziest hurricane I had ever heard of was the one that went up through Georgia and into the mountains of NC. I believe it was around 2003 or 2004 this happened. Now you want to talk about people not being prepared for something like that, mountain folks had their very experience with a hurricane then. OK I just checked to make sure of the date on Google and actually 3 hurricanes went through Western NC in 2004. Hurricanes Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne. Now that's crazy.

[@russellbastion4315]

At least that kitty made it.

[@hasicazulatv2078]

14:29 halfway mark, im still here!

[@user-ot5zs9ry9t]

It hit a Air Force base too.

[@theresacrubaugh2095]

The traffic coming out of Dade county was bumper to bumper all the way up to Georgia. They made I-95 only going north. The governor had all hotels kick the tourists out to make room for the evacuated people. Every hptel was over capacity with people sleeping in the lobbies and halls. This is the storm my cousin rode out under a mattress as his home fell on top of him in Homestead. I was in Tampa on the peninsula surrounded by Tampa Bay. We were told after it would cross into the Gulf we could be next. I was ready to drive out of the peninsula at a moments notice. I woke up just as it made landfall. I turned on the TV and our Tampa station was picking up a Miami station even though their satillite dish fell off. I decided to tape what I was seeing after the Miami Hurricane Center had the radar ripped off of their building. You could actually hear it being ripped off! People were calling asking for help and no one could give them help until after the storm passed. They let people know which streets were getting the eyewall, street by street. It was crazy! Luckily, it didn't come to Tampa other than with tropical storm winds. A blind colleague of mine lived in another hard hit region of SW Miami. At the last minute he decided to ride out the storm in a church. It was the only thing still standing in the area. His apartment, according to his neighbors, had the cement walls turn back into sand and the rebars all bent in the wind. Their lake had a trapped shark in it. Another colleague had their windows and bolted doors break open. She said they had the contents of their neighbor's kids room in their office and all the animals, snakes included, came into their home. Their home was too damaged to be able to live in. They had to share a two bedroom apartment with two other families for over a year. And they were put in charge of getting the schools (hurricane shelters) in Miami Dade back to being schools again. Families had to move to other places to live so they weren't in their home school districts/ It was a mess. The following year they came to our annual foreign language meeting. They said they were around Ft. Lauderdale before they saw a standing tree. They were exhausted and frazzled and told us all that they were going to stayat the bar during our meetings. There was a documentary made about them switching storm shelters back into schools and tracking where the students were living after Andrew. My cousin finally got his house rebuilt and hurricane Katrina took his new roof off before heading to New Orleans. Fema and the Insurance companies were aweful. It took days to start getting the help to them. Some might say weeks. If the people reported it was a tornado spawned off of Andrew they didn't get help from FEMA. (Tornados do spawn off of hurricanes.) It took over 10 years to really get back on their feet. It was a major city/megalopolis. All my friends and I toldeach other if it is a cat. 4 or 5 we'd be going into another state. I personally went through Cats. 1 - 3 while I lived there for 35 years. My college roommate just went through hurricane Ian last year in Ft. Myers. Ian was a cat. 5. Her apartment building flooded and still has some damage being fixed. Luckily, her brother got her out of the area before it hit. I'm always concerned about my friends and cousins. They know they can come here if needed.

[@edithroberts8959]

Katrina didn't directly hit New Orleans. Flood waters from breached levees caused that devastation. Those people were told for 5 days to get out and they ignored the warning. As a matter of fact, after Katrina went inland the news showed the people in New Orleans mocking the storm and dancing in this streets. Mississippi took the brunt of Katrina as well as some lower parrishes in Louisiana. Help NEVER came for the parrishes in Louisiana that were directly hit and Mississippi was down played.

[@Red_Panda2412]

"Why me" is so frustrating. Evacuation orders are not made for nothing- if they had left, then they wouldn't have had to go through that. It's sad and so unnecessary :(

[@lorettacarroll6015]

My youngest sister was in the Navy stationed in Jacksonville, Florida, at the time of Andrew. She was sent to Homestead to help with the clean-up.

Hurricanes do as much damage as tornadoes

[@edithroberts8959]

They do more because they cover hundreds of miles in length and width.

@@edithroberts8959 this is true I was using it as a comparison since Recky wouldn't know too much about it

[@frand9174]

More damage, over hundreds of miles.

[@laytoncater9886]

There is way more overall damage from hurricanes, but you can survive a Cat5 hurricane in a standard home, especially with the long window to prepare. You can not survive a F-5 tornado unless you're underground. It will clean wipe the home, even pulling up the concrete foundation.

@@laytoncater9886 yes I know I was in a f5 tornado

[@whothrewthepewp8262]

"why me? what did I do wrong?" You didn't evacuate you fool

[@aston6807]

Please react to "Rainsville - The Strongest Tornado You've Never Heard Of" or "2011: The Year of The EF5". Every EF5 from this year were powerful monsters.

[@ZolFox]

I know hurricanes from living on the east coast. Floyd and Sandy were the ones that I remember. But they were nothing compared to this. When I heard 100,000 homes were destroyed I kinda zonked out and missed a bit of what was said after that. You know, the difference is that probably more than 2/3 of the states in the continental U.S. have experience some kind of significant tornado event, but really only Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida residents can truly understand the “hurricane” and what it means to go through it. Also damn that shit with the kid making the audio recording and the parents having to listen to it after he died was rough.

[@richardbates1507]

If you love Storm Stories checkout the Jurassic Park hurricane and/or tornado Storm Stories there are a lot of them.

[@ellenbryn]

basically watch all of them

[@angelanye7566]

Where I live in North Carolina it was Floyd in 1999 that killed 57 people, then we had Fran, Bonnie and Florence.

[@user-po3ev7is5w]

I've been in and through many hurricanes. You DO NOT stand in the path of a Cat 4 or 5. Not if you value your life and lives of your family...

[@user-po3ev7is5w]

if you're house isn't steel reinforced concrete like the (post 1999) building code specs you don't want to stay for hurricane force winds. And even then you don't stay if you are in an area that can flood.

[@sissyt7779]

I live South Carolina about an hour from the coast. I have been through many hurricanes & only one major hurricane. Hurricanes can produce tornados & rain. The storm takes an hours to pass as the storm can be hundreds mile wide with the strongest winds near the eye. It’s difficult to evacuate as roads are blocked & bridges gone. Emergency services will quit answer calls during the peak of the storm. The best option is to evacuate for major hurricanes.

[@donnelson6694]

I don't have any experience with hurricanes or tornadoes so I can't even imagine what it must be like to live through that sort of thing. Scary stuff.

[@ellenbryn]

Recky this is kind of depressing but I just ran across an 8 minute video of some of Category 4 Hurricane Beryl hammering the Caribbean island of Carriacou this morning. I don't know what the casualties are, but at least they had warnings it was coming, although this is the earliest a major hurricane has ever formed, and it sounds like it sped up so they didn't have much time to prepare. i'm hoping that while the property damage is going to be bad, the people are OK. Pretty scary. The point is though… Hurricane Beryl videos are terrifying! Now consider that Beryl was a Category 4, but Andrew was a Category 5- its winds were stronger, and it hit at night, for hours and hours. no wonder a lot of the people who went through that night were traumatized.

[@ellenbryn]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGjGlmOKismcfcUsi=JoejGQP4EpfBRe70 (video link in case it gets screened. The cameraman mostly lets the storm speak for itself, although he does provide some comments. As usual, wind is very loud.)

[@michaelmccarthy5455]

I was evacuated from Palm Beach because of it (not a Florida native.) I remember the sky being purple as we left.

[@Puma1Sunfire1]

Hurricane Andrew was a bad one. I don't think it was the fastest but it was very focused (smallish) with intense winds Recky, There is a list of RETIRED names of hurricanes, just as bad or worse if you feel like going down that rabbit hole.

[@chrisvibz4753]

brother react to “still in saigon” by charlie daniels band

[@chazkahenry6047]

Been through 5 or 6 tropical storms,and 5 hurricanes, now i live in Oklahoma. I'll take a hurricane over one of these Nader's any day. You can get over a weeks warning with a hurricane, sometimes the sirens dont go until a nader already swept through your town or goes completely unwarned. Also, there is a lot left unsaid in this program about the damage done by Andrew, they discovered that Lenar builders were cutting huge costs in all those cookie cutter neighborhoods down in Homestead, i think Arvida was too,but mostly Lenar. Subpar building, subpar supply's, subpar contractors, and inspection fraud. Codes sucked then,and they got away with barely following them. Those houses barely stood a chance with thise contractors then. After Andrew Florida instated new codes for hurricane shutters, glass fir windows and doors, rebar, concrete, doors, hurricane clips for the roof to the house (they talk about houses in tornado prone areas having them now and several other items used in FL building code now), using cinder block to build instead of wood. Several years after Andrew my Mom moved us to South Florida, west of Ft Lauderdale, and we moved into a newly built Lenar home in 1995 (she new nothing about all the scandal about Andrew at the time of pirchase), but the house was solid, got us through a few nasty tropical storms and hurricane before moved Sorry im rambling, but im passionate about weather and home,and both states are home. Also, my doctors just started me on a new med for chronic pain and its mad me more talkative or more willing to talk. Hope yall have a great night, Stay safe where ever you may call home, and dear God,if i missed something or misspoke,im sorry ahead of time (new meds lol). Love this channel❤❤❤

[@foots-qt4pk]

The moral of the story...evacuate

[@chrisvibz4753]

@@foots-qt4pk you must be fun to be around

[@kellywilliams5112]

Welp it happened in Sandy again in Andrew and again in Katrina, but these people who refuse to leave, think they are above mother nature, because most are to worried about their STUFF believe it or not.. and the biggest thing that pisses me off, is not only have you put your own family in grave danger, but now you have put the lives and families of first responders in danger to save you, because you were to much of an idiot to leave. Recky I train and own search/rescue and cadaver dogs, this may sound cruel but I never feel bad when my dogs find someone, from hurricanes, there are ample literally DAYS worth of warnings.. You were warned, You didn't listen, Now you have paid for your ego, I only get sad when my dogs find children, because they didn't have a choice in what their ignorant parents did.. I'm not a bad person, my dogs have worked many a disaster, including the 9/11 Twin Towers, and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tidal wave, but I don't have the stomach for these people who refuse to leave, who perfectly can.. sorry! because you put multiple people's lives at risk to save your damn TV, and don't think I haven't heard thousands of times "well I didn't want my house to be looted" I got so tired of my dogs finding drowned people who died for STUFF, I finally resigned from doing hurricanes. And all it would have took is a 100 mile drive and ONE uncomfortable night sleeping in the car, to save lives.

[@susanwahl6322]

Ian was a sh** storm.

[@petermiller4953]

Cat in background! Moa?

[@jayrtee]

Hurricanes have tornados built into them, so, yeah, hurricanes trump tornadoes.

[@NatPat-yj2or]

All those idiots that stay behind then can't believe they are in danger.

[@UncleBuckRodgers]

[@MelNel5]

I’m from Houston, Texas, and that storm (Andrew, then Katrina) was heartbreaking. I’ve lived in Houston all of my life, and have been through several serious storms, Alicia being one of the worst. Tropical storm Allison dropped 35” (890 mm) of rain in Houston, and just hovered over Houston. The flooding was horrifying. I feel such pain anytime people are hit by tropical storms/hurricanes, because we’ve survived several, and they can be devastating. Hurricane season is upon us now, so fingers crossed that we don’t get anything spooky from the gulf. 🫰