August 16 - Andrew Annihilates Areas of Florida

The Category 5 hurricane is a beast unlike most other natural phenomena on Earth. When Andrew made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane, it packed a 1-minute sustained wind speed of 165 mph (266 km/h). As many as 1.4 million people lost power at the height of the storm; some didn't get their power restored for over a month!!  In the Everglades, 70,000 acres (280 km2) of trees were downed.