i vaguely remember andrew...i was up a little further north of where it hit (about 30min south of tampa) so all we got was some wing with gusts that moved around stuff outside and tons of rain, but it basically missed us...i rememebr driving through homestead a year later going to key west and it was still a mess, half of the buildings were still laying around all over the place...imagine being in there when it happened or right after it happened
EDIT: oh yea, and Andrew was recently upgraded by a council to a category 5 (the highest category a hurricane can reach, holding sustained winds at at least 155mph)..before that (which was only a month or two ago) it was still considered a category 4 hurricane....which makes andrew the 3rd category 5 hurricane (to my recollection, maybe 4th) to ever hit the united states since we started recording hurricanes back in the latter 1800s...