| On August 23, 1992, Hurricane Andrew came
ashore in Homestead, Florida with winds of over 245 miles per
hour. Tens of thousands of people were made homeless and damage
was in the billions of dollars, making Andrew America's costliest
natural disaster prior to Hurricane Katrina. Fortunately Andrew's
toll in lives was light, around two dozen deaths, a figure dwarfed
by the great Galveston Hurricane, Katrina and others. Our home
was spared, but the suffering we witnessed, as well as both the
depths to which human nature can sink and the heights to which
it can soar have touched us in permenant ways. |
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