Hurricane Andrew was the only Top 10 storm to make landfall in the US with Category 5 winds. It powered across southern Florida, across the Gulf, made landfall a second time in Louisiana, this time as a Category 3 hurricane, and then blew across Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Andrew claimed 26 lives. With $41.2 billion in property damage (in 2010 dollars), it was America's most expensive hurricane until...

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Marjorie Conklin lives in a makeshift tent in front of her home at the Goldcoaster Mobile Home and RV park in Florida City in the wake of hurricane Andrew's devastation.