Summary Report on Hurricane Andrew

Mortality from Hurricane Andrew.

Hurricane Andrew, a category 4 storm, made landfall in South Florida on August 24, 1992, and caused extensive structural and environmental damage. The Dade County Medical Examiner Department investigated 15 deaths directly related to the storm and another 15 natural deaths indirectly related to the storm. The aftermath of the hurricane continued to create circumstances that lead to 32 accidenta...

Psychological effects of Hurricane Andrew on an elementary school population.

OBJECTIVE To explore the prevalence and progression of posttraumatic symptomatology (PTS), using emotional and behavioral indices of psychopathology in school-age children in the pathway of Hurricane Andrew (HI-IMPACT) and in a comparison group north of Miami (LO-IMPACT). METHOD Pynoos' Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Reaction Index and Achenbach's Teacher's Report Form (TRF) were administered ...

Weathering the storm: children's long-term recall of Hurricane Andrew.

Children who experienced a highly stressful natural disaster, Hurricane Andrew, were interviewed within a few months of the event, when they were 3-4 years old, and again 6 years later, when they were 9-10 years old. Children were grouped into low, moderate, or high stress groups depending on the severity of the experienced storm. All children were able to recall this event in vivid detail 6 ye...

Surface Winds at Landfall of Hurricane Andrew (1992)—A Reply

We appreciate this opportunity to (i) clarify the simulation of surface winds at landfall of Hurricane Andrew (1992) as reported in Liu et al. (1997, hereafter referred to as LZY); (ii) make more detailed comparisons with one of the most sophisticated surface analyses of a landfallen hurricane by Powell and Houston (1996, hereafter referred to as PH96); and (iii) present the simulated winds at ...

The Public Health Service's response to Hurricane Andrew.