Why Hurricane Andrew Was A True Nightmare

On August 24th, 1992, Hurricane Andrew made landfall near Homestead, Florida — and nothing was ever the same again. With sustained winds exceeding 165 mph and gusts that pushed far beyond that, Andrew was, at the moment of impact, the most powerful hurricane ever recorded to strike the continental United States. What followed was no ordinary natural disaster. Entire neighborhoods were erased within minutes. Homes built to code crumbled like cardboard. And beneath the rubble — 65 lives lost, 175,000 people without shelter, and more than 27 billion dollars in damage. This video documents what really happened that night: the hours of warning, the moments of impact, and the staggering scale of destruction that left even seasoned disaster responders without words.