I had a friend in Coral Gables, which bore the brunt of Andrew. He was an ER doc who'd lived all over the SE. In fact, I bought the house I live in from him. I called him just before landfall. He said it was so calm, you could drop a feather and it'd float to the ground in front of you. I told him the first rainbands were just touching shore. He and his wife had just put on a new tile roof. They had remodeled their kitchen and it blew off all their cabinet doors when it hit. Afterwards, I was talking to his wife and she said there were trees coming from the east, smashing into their roof blowing on. I asked to where, wondering if they were piling up behind them. She said "How would I know; on over into the Everglades, I guess"...