Hurricane Andrew - Southeast Florida - August 24, 1992

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This is my Hurricane Andrew chase video. The footage was taken during Andrew's landfall on the Southeast Florida coast, at Coconut Grove, south of Miami. Though Andrew was extremely small, moving very quickly and made landfall about 15 miles to the south, my location was right at the edge of the hurricane's northern eyewall. Unfortunately the entire peak of the storm was at night, however, using a portable spotlight, I was able to capture footage throughout the entire event. Even with the challenging video conditions, Andrew's ferocity is clearly obvious in this footage. The roar of the wind is deafening, punctuated by breaking glass and other debris. Peak winds occur between 13 through 17 minutes into the video, and are sustained near 130mph with gusts to 150mph. The anemometer at the National Hurricane Center (about 2 miles west of my location) failed after recording a gust to 164mph. Based on post-analysis, Andrew is now estimated to have had sustained winds of 165mph with peak gusts near 200-215mph at landfall in South Florida, making it one of only three Category Five hurricanes ever to strike the United States.

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  1. Zia, on January 7th, 2009 at 16:48:30 Said:
    Funny story: I knew Hurricane Andrew struck the end of August, but for the life of me I couldn't remember which day. So on August 24, 2007 at 5:31pm I welcomed a bouncing baby boy. Yeah. I got home, and while I was recovering I thought "hey, it must be close to the anniversary of Andrew." Looked it up, then realized my Hurricane Andrew had arrived 15 years and 12 1/2 hrs after the original Hurricane Andrew. His destruction is nothing compared to this though...
  2. Coriann, on January 7th, 2009 at 17:11:29 Said:
    Especially after seeing pics of non mobile home neighborhoods that looked more like Moore, Oklahoma on May 4th, 1999 (the day after a tornado packing 318 mile per hour winds swept through that town).
  3. Pavati, on January 7th, 2009 at 17:34:28 Said:
    I just recently happened to see vmax's main website, tropmet, and saw some more pics of Andrew's destruction. And how can this be that Andrew even destroyed a few concrete block structure houses? I would imagine that Andrew's straight line wind gusts would have had to be closer to 300 miles per hour to destroy a concrete building like that.
  4. Wolfcot, on January 7th, 2009 at 17:57:27 Said:
    thing about a hurricane is it is sustained winds sustained winds for 4-6 hours at 150 will cause much more overall destruction then an f5 twister
  5. Destrie, on January 7th, 2009 at 18:20:26 Said:
    storm of all storms
  6. LATHROP, on January 7th, 2009 at 18:43:25 Said:
    I know from personal experience that Stan is a religious nut and a hateful bigot. Just another in a long line of holier that thou closeted homophobes. Way to teach your children hate you jerk. Its too bad Andrew didn't get you.
  7. Elvia, on January 7th, 2009 at 19:06:24 Said:
    worst hurricane ever in 1992. hurricane andrew is bad and worst. huricane andrew started in august 16-28 in southeast florida. hurricane andrew distroyed more then 900'0 houses cars towers plam trees boats roofs doors windows and stuff. this is the worst hurricane andrew ever. RIP.
  8. Haisley, on January 7th, 2009 at 19:29:23 Said:
    I also saw a couple different videos that featured meteoroligist Stan Goldenberg as he rode out Andrew. And I actually even wonder; what in blazes was Stan's house made of?! Especially after seeing footage that showed the entire top and most of the front side of his house totally obliterated!
  9. Owyn, on January 7th, 2009 at 19:52:22 Said:
    Wow! That looks incredibly scary
  10. O'shea, on January 7th, 2009 at 20:15:21 Said:
    Dont look that bad but it does get a bit windy after 10 minutes.
  11. JOZSI, on January 7th, 2009 at 20:38:20 Said:
    Obviously, some of the worst construction came in the 1980s; 2 story wood frame homes with huge wide span windows and gable end roofs that literally catch wind like a sail! I even heard some were not properly bolted to their foundations and when Andrew hit, a lot of these flimsy homes literally slid off their foundations, and most of them simply crumbled like a tower made of cards.
  12. Jannae, on January 7th, 2009 at 21:01:19 Said:
    I got other things I really gotta say; we really learned some painful lessons in building practices from Hurricane Andrew. First of all, the best type of residential construction for hurricane regions is single story concrete block structures with small to medium sized windows (none of those big wide span "picture windows", of course) that are either made of impact resistant glass, or have hurricane shutters and hipped roofs that are sloped no less than 35 degrees from horizontal.
  13. Haisley, on January 7th, 2009 at 21:24:18 Said:
    That was a hell of a night! I was only 8 but I could never forget that. I spent the night in the tub with my Mom and my kitten with a mattress over us, while her boyfriend laid with his head at the tub and his feet hold the door shut. I will never forget the sound of the freight train. This guy was insane!
  14. Phebe, on January 7th, 2009 at 21:47:17 Said:
    Replying to blackout010's post here.
  15. Kammie, on January 7th, 2009 at 22:10:16 Said:
    Yes, of course. David E Fisher's house for instance. (author of the book "The Scariest Place on Earth".) Plus at least one or two nice sized neighborhoods of concrete block structure houses seen from WTVJ's news helicopter in the video "Hurricane Andrew as it happened".
  16. Ethelred, on January 7th, 2009 at 22:33:15 Said:
    the day i was born
  17. Wendell, on January 7th, 2009 at 22:56:14 Said:
    This vid is great- GJ
  18. Annalisa, on January 7th, 2009 at 23:19:13 Said:
    I wish they had a crew in my house that night-much worse than the vid. I was at 152St and 137Ave. Our house was destroyed from the start. I was convinced that I was going to die. The pressure was horrible and..... The wind blasted with atomic strenth. I screamed and couldn't hear myself. I had to tie myself to the pluming with bungie and mat not to fly away. I had to use my legs to push against other pipes with all my might 30 sec at a time with each blast. Its a miracle I'm alive, a miracle.
  19. Chrisanne, on January 8th, 2009 at 23:42:12 Said:
    Incredible!
  20. NOACH, on January 8th, 2009 at 00:05:11 Said:
    Katrina's surge was not totally devestating, if the levee's would of held Katrina would of been long forgotten.
  21. Delanie, on January 8th, 2009 at 00:28:10 Said:
    at 9:46 all the power go's out?
  22. DONATELLO, on January 8th, 2009 at 00:51:09 Said:
    If all of the people in the south go to church so much, why does god kick their butts every year?
  23. ALZUBRA, on January 8th, 2009 at 01:14:08 Said:
    and to you who said stop whining...first off learn to spell..and second if anyone has ever gone through something like that they have every right to express how much it sucked! Your an insensitive bastard who obviously has never gone through anything like that! So keep your shitty comments to yourself!!
  24. Willis, on January 8th, 2009 at 01:37:07 Said:
    I lived in The Redlands during hurricane andrew!! It sucked, that tree at the end with the 2x4 in it was like a mile from my house ( i lived on 244th)it actually only fell out of the tree a couple years back!! It was a constant reminder every day you saw it!
  25. IDA, on January 8th, 2009 at 02:00:06 Said:
    Katrina had the storm surge and a ton of rain, can you imagine if it had the wind of Andrew? Listening to this is horrifying, I cant imagine being trapped in my house hearing this coming. Unbelievable!

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