Not to change the subject much, but the South Florida Building Code is a requirement to 125 mile per hour wind. We will never know exactly what Andrew got up to in some areas because the wind meter was destroyed moments after recording a gust of 169mph. Basically, any hurricane Cat 2 is beyond the requirements of the building code, so a Cat four or five will be total destruction of buildings. It isn’t that they aren’t made to code, the hurricanes exceed the code many fold. I was down in Homestead right after Andrew and pictures or images on your TV screen can never capture the jaw dropping devastation as you approached the worst areas. The absolute worst, was as if a gigantic squeegee just leveled the ground. It wasn’t that the buildings were gone, the hedges, trees, plants, everything was gone. On tv it looks like they are showing an empty field, and you’re wondering why show that let’s see some damage, but that’s where buildings use to be. If you can’t tell, this was 1992 and it still blows my mind what I saw there. Indescribable really.

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