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This report is on Hurricane Andrew witch was the most destructive of all the hurricanes ever recorded in the United States witch was from August 16 to August 28, 1992.

Andrew started off the coast of Africa as a tropical depression on August 14, 1992. It brought rainfall, lots of wind, and deaths. It went to eventually becoming a category 4 hurricane or now they would call it a category 5. At least that’s what some said on there reports on about Hurricane Andrew.

It was small but very powerful and destructive. It caused twenty-six and five tenths billion dollars of damage in the United States alone and 70,000 acres of damaged mangroves in Florida. It was the most costly natural disaster ever in the U.S. history right in front of Hurricane Hugo but Hurricane Andrew had almost 20,000,000,000 dollars more damage than Hurricane Hugo did in 1989. Hurricane Hugo was the second most costliest hurricane ever to hit the United States of America with 7,000,000,000......

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