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Hurricane Andrew: Damages
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Hurricane Andrew caused damage to more than 780 sq.km of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo forests in the Atchafalaya Basin of Louisiana in August 1992. Trees in bottomland hardwood sites were examined, in early May 1994, for signs and symptoms of wood decay fungi, and for insect damage, ostensibly present before the hurricane, which may have predisposed trees to windthrow or breaks in the bole or top. Three sites with severe wind damage and three sites withminor wind damage were studied along the path of the hurricane. Surveying for wood decay fungi and insects on trees, and evaluating damage to crowns, stems, and roots was done on 25-m diameterpoint- sample plots. Evidence of wood decay fungi and insects, or the damage they cause, was rare at all sites, in part because of flooding during the evaluation, so that predisposition to wind damage by these agents was not established. Crown damage rating classes and d.b.h.
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Hurricane Andrew completely devastated all of the towns that it struck. Roofs of houses were blown away, walls off of buildings were torn off, trailer parks were left as nothing but a pile of metal and wood. Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless, and over 26 billion dollars worth of property damage was caused!
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Hurricane Andrew ripped through Dade County in August, 1992. Winds reaching up to 175 mph left a path of destruction. Andrew forced 50,000 residents from their homes and caused $25 Billion in damages.
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Tomorrow morning, Masters will recall the initial relief after Hurricane Andrew: “As news reports begin to filter in from the hardest hit areas, the scope of Katrina’s destruction is slowly being realized. Remember in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, how there was a lot of relief about how much worse it could have been, and how well Miami fared? This cheerfulness faded once the search teams penetrated to Homestead and found the near-total devastation there [W]ith a two block long breach in the Lake Pontchartrain levee allowing the entire City of New Orleans to flood today, we are witnessing a natural disaster of the scope unseen in America since the great 1938 Hurricane devastated New England, killing 600. Damage from Katrina will probably top $50 billion, and the death toll will be in the hundreds.”
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Andrew was an atypical hurricane in that the casualties and most severe damage were mainly caused by wind, not water. It's usually the latter, either due to coastal flooding from surge and waves or inland flooding from rainfall.
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Even large high-rise office buildings suffered severe damage during Hurricane Andrew. This image of the Datran Center along US1 in Kendall, Florida shows every window on the windward side of the building has been blown out.
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