Yes Hurricane Andrew was 1992 !
Some folks weren't as lucky as Mike and its strange how an intense
storm like Andrew can leave people with a romantic feeling in many such
ways. I bet this is related to the feelings of wonder associated with
meteorites.
In my parents' case, our house was right under the point of first
landfall and took a direct hit of the category 5 hurricane which showed
no mercy. Andrew removed the roof like an easy-open can of sardines.
Mom and dad took refuge in the bathroom, and I was on a plane as it was
happening and arrived on the dreadful ground zero driving through a
morass, within hours from Boston, with a camping stove and lots of
lobsters and beer, and some water, of course. It was something they
never forgot.
The house was completely trashed, 22,500 gallon concrete pool errupted
2 meters out of the ground, for example. Changed life a bit since my
parent came to live with me for two years after Andrew, before they
were back on their feet. Attached is a photo of the aftermath from a
personal point of view, Dad snapped this as I cleaned up one of the
seventeen large pine trees Andrew snapped with Tunguska force amongst
all the rubble.
http://www.diogenite.com/andrew.jpg
Kindest wishes
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Bross <elemen...@peconic.net>
To: meteoriteguy.com <m...@meteoriteguy.com>
Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Sat, Aug 27, 2011 4:42 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT_ Irene
Yes, sorry...
I thought it was 1993, mistyped, but it was 1992.
I went to Miami a couple days after Andrew.
Some parts, especially poor neighborhoods with
trailers etc... were devastated.
Michael
From: meteoriteguy.com
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 10:36 PM
To: Michael Bross
Cc: Mal Bishop ; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT_ Irene
Andrew was august 92.....
Met my wife the day after it, getting on an ARMY ship in Tampa. Was
supposed to fly to Key West that day. Of course that would have been a
rough flight. Drove to Tampa and met the ship which had fled the keys
to Tampa ahead of the storm.
Fun times.
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 27, 2011, at 2:10 PM, "Michael Bross" <elemen...@peconic.net>
wrote:
Thank you Mal and everyone
The site looks good.
I am using :
(http://www.news12.com/weather/weather_main.jsp?section=weather_today_ton
ight®ion_name=LI)
which is a local news channel
Irene is downgraded to category 1, but... it is so huge (500 miles
wide)
that big flooding can be expected, comment from someone who lived
Andrew in Miami in 1983
best wishes to all !!!
Michael
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