What Hurricane Andrew did to us on Aug. 24, 1992. See it in pictures, video and words
Jeff Kleinman
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Where were you on Aug. 24, 1992?
If you were in South Florida, surely you remember.
Hurricane Andrew changed our lives.
As we look back on another anniversary of a storm that destroyed parts of South Miami-Dade, ripped families from their homes, turned us into survivalists with no power or landmarks, we warily keep an eye on all the systems being tracked this season by the National Hurricane Center.
Even if you weren’t in the Miami area for Andrew, you saw what Hurricane Ian did to Southwest Florida in 2022.
So let’s take a look back at Hurricane Andrew, the 1992 monster that was “knocking at the front door” on Aug. 23 and then caused “destruction at dawn” on Aug. 24.
WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE
Flamingos huddling in the bathroom of Miami Metrozoo (later renamed Zoo Miami). Ron Magill along with the staff of then Miami Metrozoo) rounded up the flamingos and put them in the bathroom for safety against Hurricane Andrew in August 1992.
Harold Keith, 69, returned to his Florida City trailer park to find his home flattened by the 165-mph sustained winds of Hurricane Andrew. The Category 5 storm roared through South Miami-Dade on Aug. 24, 1992.
In ‘Untitled,’ shot in 1992, Marjorie Conklin cools off in a tub of water filled with a hose, surrounded by what’s left of her south Miami-Dade County home several days after the destruction of Hurricane Andrew.
Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida with sustained winds of 165 mph and gusts over 200 mph as a Category 5 storm on Aug. 24, 1992. Andrew hammered Homestead and the rest of South Miami-Dade, killed 15 people in Miami-Dade and was indirectly responsible for at least 25 more deaths. It destroyed 25,000 homes in South Florida and damaged more than 101,000 others, as seen in this file photo.
THE FRONT PAGES
Cover page (page 1, section A) of the special edition of the Miami Herald published Monday, Aug. 24, 1992, on the day Hurricane Andrew arrived in South Miami-Dade.
The Miami Herald section front on Aug. 25, 1992, the day after Hurricane Andrew decimated South Miami-Dade. “Destruction at Dawn.”
The Miami Herald front page on Friday, Aug. 28, 1992. “We Need Help” as Hurricane Andrew aftermath overwhelmed during relief efforts in Miami-Dade.
Front pages from the first week of Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
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