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29 Years Ago Today

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~ Saffir-Simpson Rating: Category 5 Hurricane.
~ Highest 1-Minute Sustained Winds: 175 mph (280 km/h)
~ Damage: $27.3 Billion (1994 USD)
~ Death Toll: 62
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Wow I can't believe it's been almost 30 years!!!
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My first hurricane
Three can keep a secret.......if two are Dead !
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TonyR wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:38 pmMy first hurricane
First one I can remember as well
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TonyR wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:38 pmMy first hurricane
Mine too. Did a couple "almost" ones growing up that hit way north or way south. Andrew was a MF'er. Kicked our butts all the way in Broward and my friends and family that lived in Homestead got bombed hard.
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No doubt about it, Andrew was nasty. I was really glad to be living in Orlando at the time. I heard locals talking about a storm that carried it's storm surge all the way across the Florida peninsula, at Orlando, long before my time.

The earliest storm I remember was Donna, in 1960. We were living in OpaLocka then.
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Iosef wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:38 pm No doubt about it, Andrew was nasty. I was really glad to be living in Orlando at the time. I heard locals talking about a storm that carried it's storm surge all the way across the Florida peninsula, at Orlando, long before my time.

The earliest storm I remember was Donna, in 1960. We were living in OpaLocka then.
Thing about Andrew was it was one of the driest hurricanes I ever heard off. Hardly any flooding really, but that meant it had lots and lots of wind, that was a fast mover.
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