Hurricane Andrew - Southeast Florida - August 24, 1992

Video Title :	Hurricane Andrew - Southeast Florida - August 24, 1992
Description :	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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Rating :	4.72
Keywords, Tags :	Hurricane Andrew Severe Weather Storms Tropical Cyclone Florida Hurricanes 1992 Extreme Wind Disaster Category Five
Video Length :	27 : 12

Comments :

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

storm of all storms

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.

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.

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!

Wow! That looks incredibly scary

Dont look that bad but it does get a bit windy after 10 minutes.

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.

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.

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!