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20 Years Ago, Hurricane Andrew Slams Florida

The Big Blow started as a little pout of hot air in the summer sky over West Africa. It was only a tropical depression when the National Hurricane Center in Dade County, Fla., began watching it closely. Three days later, as it gathered strength 1,000 miles off the Leeward Islands, the NHC meteorologists named it Andrew.

Newsweek September 7, 1992 

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   the reason i grew up in cali

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   I believe this is the hurricane that mystically hurled a tree branch into our house without any broken windows or open...

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   I remember watching this on the news when I was a kid.

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   Rode out this storm in my dark living room with the radio on, snuggled between my parents on the couch in Tampa.

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    I can’t believe 20 years have passed. My uncle still lives in the house that we sought rescue in during Hurricane...

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    I was three years old, but I remember the storm perfectly. My family was lucky, I know so many who weren’t....

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    I remember that shit like it was yesterday

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    My house got fuuuucked up… So they say.

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