30 Years After Andrew: The Storm That Changed South Florida

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.

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🤪

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

Andrew was the costliest Atlantic hurricane at the time, but it has fallen to the 9th costliest

I was born on that day

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

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! <3

Thank God, that some of the people had made through the Storm!

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 lived in Kendall for this.

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.

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.

Ill never forget that sob

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’ll be 31 this month, my life could have been taken by this storm but here I am.

Amazing! Keep up the great work🎉

Then Hurricane Ian came and became the deadliest Hurricane since the Labor Day Hurricane.