LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Hurricane Andrew: Communities
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Abstract: Senator Bob Graham conducted hearings in Homestead eight months after Hurricane Andrew pummelled the area. The hearings were conducted in four segments: preparation for arrival of Hurricane Andrew, events immediately following the Hurricane, the ongoing recovery effort, and citizen comments. Community leaders discussed problems with planning within the beauracracy, and logistics for recovery following the disaster. Citizens discuss problems of beauracracy, temporary "tent city" housing, unemployment, increased trauma cases and crime, street debris, poor air quality due to trash burning, and police insensitivity. Appended to the hearings are reports from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and another from the General Accounting Office titled "Disaster Management: Recent Disasters Demonstrate the Need to Improve the Nation's Response Strategy."
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The total number who died during hurricane Andrew is obviously staggering, yet whenever the "official death toll" is mentioned in the media, a figure of anywhere between 15 and 59 is quoted. The population of the 21 communities annihilated by Andrew's eye-wall had been officially recorded by the Dade County Census Bureau as 415,151 before Andrew struck.
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The photographs that follow are by students who witnessed the destruction of Hurricane Andrew firsthand. They include images taken by students in the seventh, eighth and ninth grades. The project grew out of the desire of one of the editors, Colette Stemple, to empower students to create and rebuild after the community had been engulfed by destruction and despair.
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