Between Hurricane Harvey’s record weeklong flooding, devastating Western wildfires and Irma, which was nearing record-levels for the longest time at Category 5 strength, she called the effects on the national economy “potentially staggering.”īoth Andrew and Irma started as wisps of unstable weather off Africa and chugged across the Atlantic as ever-intensifying Cape Verde storms. This track at this point,” Hale told The Associated Press on Thursday. Kate Hale, Miami-Dade’s emergency management chief - who grabbed national attention during Andrew by beseeching “where the hell is the cavalry on this one?” - said by nearly every measure Irma looks far worse. “We’re dealing with an entirely different level of phenomenon. “The effect of Irma on the state of Florida is going to be much greater than Andrew’s effect,” said Weather Channel senior hurricane specialist Bryan Norcross, who was a local television meteorologist hailed as a hero during Andrew. history with damages of $26.5 billion in 1992 dollars (about $50 billion in current dollars), according to the National Weather Service. At the time Andrew was the costliest hurricane in U.S. Irma is likely to blow that out of the water.īigger and with a 90-degree different path of potential destruction, Irma is forecast to hit lots more people and buildings than 1992’s Andrew, said experts, including veterans of Andrew. ![]() WASHINGTON (AP) - For an entire generation in South Florida, Hurricane Andrew was the monster storm that reshaped a region.
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