What can be written about the hurricane forever etched into the lives of a generation of South Floridians 30 years ago today? Hurricane Andrew – which roared ashore near Fender Point along the southern reaches of Biscayne Bay shortly after 5 AM on Monday, August 24, 1992 – sliced a path of destruction through South Florida, annihilating chunks of South Dade County from North Kendall Drive southward through Cutler Ridge, Homestead, and Florida City. Andrew was merciless, shattering windows across downtown Miami, uprooting trees, and felling fences from Broward to Palm Beach Counties. Even the National Hurricane Center – sitting six floors up the 12-story Gables One Tower on Dixie Highway across from the University of Miami –
This same storm also caused Cat 3 destructive winds west of New Orleans. It later brought a night of heavy rain in the Northeast, at LEAST an inch and change. I think it was a Friday night in Central New York we had periods of steady, heavy rain that came from Ohio as Andrew was at that point, just an extratropical low, or ordinary low.
This same storm also caused Cat 3 destructive winds west of New Orleans. It later brought a night of heavy rain in the Northeast, at LEAST an inch and change. I think it was a Friday night in Central New York we had periods of steady, heavy rain that came from Ohio as Andrew was at that point, just an extratropical low, or ordinary low.