It made landfall near the city of Homestead on August 24, 1992, and cut a swath through some of the state’s most populous areas. Andrew was a Category 5 hurricane, small but tightly focussed, with winds of up to a hundred and seventy-five miles an hour. Illustration by Charles BurnsĪcross the street, a van had been flipped upside down and flung against a house here and there trees were stuck in rooftops like toothpicks in canapés. The state’s ecology is a kind of urban legend come true-the old alligator-flushed-down-the-toilet story, with a thousand species.
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