Originally posted by Dbarrm
You would think differently if you went through Andrew.
You'd think differently if you saw the effects of Andrew
even a year later!
My wife and I drove to the Keys 14 months after Andrew cut across
southern Florida. The devastation still apparent and the slow going
reconstruction, sobering. From just north of Miami to beyond Homestead-
as far as one could see from the highway- nude trees, shopping mall buildings
with two remaining walls and floors open to the world,
entire neighborhoods
where the construction crews worked in assembly line fashion (mostly waiting on
inspectors). In other areas, lots of NOTHING- due to either lack of laborers to
rebuild, or funding and the land was seemingly abandoned.
To see this stuff on the news or Discovery Channel is
nothing like
witnessing it first hand.
I will
never, ever have another 'hurricane party'; no matter how far away
the storm surge or how weak the winds.
