Hurricanes — My experience with Hurricane Andrew — Miami, Florida

I don’t remember getting even any hurricane warnings until that year. The news of course were focusing on tracking this major hurricane. The landfall happened in the early morning around 5 am — on Aug. 24, which was a Monday. Our business had shut down completely and we were told to keep watching the news and check to see when it was safe to return to work.

I remember I was out shopping for some last minute items and still did not worry too much. How bad could a Hurricane category 5 really be? My husband though was…