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In the Eye of Hurricane Andrew

By Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and Asterie Baker Provenzo

Based on interviews with survivors and rescue workers in the weeks and months that followed, In the Eye of Hurricane Andrew is the extraordinary story of one of the most destructive natural disasters in modern American history as told by the people who lived through it.

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Contents

Foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino, series editors

Preface

1. "It's Going to Be Very, Very Bad"

2. August 24, 1992

3. Coming Out after the Storm

4. Immediate Emergency Relief

5. The First Weeks

6. Rebuilding the Community

7. Life Will Never Be the Same

Notes

Appendix A: Participants in the Hurricane Andrew

Oral History Research Project

Appendix B: Bibliography of Writings on Hurricane Andrew compiled by William E. Brown, Jr.

Index

© 2002 University Press of Florida. All Rights Reserved.

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