LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Hurricane Andrew: South Florida
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Permanent field plots were established in October 1992 and early 1993 subsequent to Hurricane Andrew. Plots were stratified to include sampling locations within the eyepath and outside the ring of maximum winds in the right and left quadrants in relation to Andrew's path and circulation (Figure 1). Sites impacted by Hurricane Andrew were established in Everglades National Park, Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), and Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (Figure 1). Additional sampling with line transects was conducted to record treefalI azimuths and to measure canopy disturbance and closure at control sites and other impacted sites in order to increase the sampling area. Control sites were located north and south of Andrew's path at Ding Darling NWR and National Key Deer NWR, respectively (Figure 1). Species composition for all plots and transects included combinations of black mangrove, Avicennia germinans (L.) Stearn, white mangrove, Laguncularia racemosa (L.) Gaertn.f., and red mangrove, Rhizophora mangle L.
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In hurricanes of Andrew's intensity, oddities become commonplace. In this photo, a 2x4 piece of plywood, carried by Andrew's intense winds has pierced the trunk of a Royal Palm tree in the Redlands of extreme Southern Miami-Dade county. August 24, 1992
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Soldier Key, 15 miles south of Miami Beach, was inundated during the passage of Hurricane Andrew. The home, associated buildings, and vegetation (shown two weeks before the storm in the left photograph [larger version]) were severely impacted in a few hours, leaving the island devastated (shown one week after the storm in the photograph on the right [larger version]).
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