Global & Disaster Medicine

Experiencing Hurricane Andrew: Eyewitness Account

August 27th, 2017

Miami Herald, 1992

“…..One thing is gone: a trailer park, behind the motel. Pieces of it are lying everywhere. On the road. In the street. On the motel’s second floor terrace.

Alvarez and I go back to our original room, and find it totaled. The mattress is in the back parking lot. Our suitcases are missing.

In fact, we find most rooms everywhere are blown to bits. No ceilings. Only a few walls. Maybe four rooms survived. Luckily, we were in two of them…..”

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