Hurricane Andrew was the third largest hurricane that struck the southeast part of the United States on August 24, 1992. “Andrew was a small and ferocious Cape Verde hurricane that wrought unprecedented economic devastation along a path through the northwestern Bahamas, the southern Florida peninsula, and south-central Louisiana” (Rappaport, 2014). Before Hurricane Andrew struck land it was reported as being a category 4 storm, but was later updated as a category 5 that pass through the southern tip of Florida. The hurricane center in Miami was destroyed when Andrew made landfall. “The strongest gust recorded before 4 a.m. when instruments at the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables were blown out of commission, was 164 mph” (Markowtiz,
