first off...Andrew was never a Cat 5 storm....they dreamt that up 12 years after the fact...this is Hurricane Charley, thats all...dont fall for the media hysteria. West Palm is almost out of the cone now...it was ground zero 2 days ago...
Please, get lost. Tell the folks that died in Andrew and the thousands that lost their homes that it was as trivial as you say. Tell those who lost their homes to Charlie that he was trivial. I loathe morons like you that infest our hurricane threads and downcast life-threatening events. Get lost.
Andrew was a Cat 5. The wind damage even far inland was way too severe and abnormal to not have been. Well built block and concrete buildings were LEVELED (Naranja Lakes, Pinewoods Villa). The storm flipped more cars, trucks, and planes than any other in history.
The hurricane experts realized that they had underestimated hurricane winds at the surface level-they turned out to be more stronger than they historically estimated. It’s upgrade was done with the Fujita wind experts and the hurricane researchers.