Nancy Dale, who writes about Florida's cowboy culture, took refuge in her travel trailer in rural Glades County after the storms destroyed her condominium on the east coast.
Now a Treasure Coast resident, Tanya Sockol has never forgotten what the storm did to her unborn baby's newly decorated nursery at her home in Florida City.
Tanya Sockol, now a St. Lucie County firefighter, had just finished decorating a nursery for her unborn daughter when Andrew struck South Florida, on Aug. 24, 1992.
A Palm Beach Gardens architect who surveyed damage in Homestead after the storm says it resembled a landscape after nuclear war. The interview is the first in a series WQCS is airing in August. Andrew's 20th anniversary is Aug. 24.
Elwood Holzworth's home actually is a two-story house built of sturdy Florida pine. It's been moved twice since it was constructed in downtown Vero Beach in 1910. With air-conditioning, Holzworth pays about $30 a month for electricity, even in the summer.
Dr. Roxanne Connelly, a scientist at the University of Florida Medical Entomology Lab in Vero Beach, discusses the prolific nature of mosquitoes and says there must be "billions upon billions" of them in Florida.
Hugh Willoughby also is credited with building the world's first seaplane, which he named the Pelican. Stuart researcher and writer Alice Luckhardt discusses the life of this remarkable man, who also made a historic trek across the Everglades in 1892.
