Hurricane Andrew - WSVN - damage footage - 5 of 5
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:00] pilot Maurice Johnson in skycam 7 and Mr
[0:03] DeMille first of all let us say how
[0:05] utterly devastated we all are at what's
[0:08] happened to your town this must be a
[0:11] very difficult thing for you to see it's
[0:13] extremely difficult it's difficult
[0:16] enough for a person in the mayor's
[0:18] position but I was I've grown up here in
[0:21] Homestead and I never in my any dreams
[0:24] thought I'd say anything like this how
[0:26] is your home personally and your family
[0:29] pretty good shape we lost some of the
[0:31] roof of the windows but everybody's
[0:34] healthy and nobody got cut by flying
[0:36] glass and we're very thankful for it
[0:38] mayor I understand that roughly 70
[0:41] percent of the people of Homestead did
[0:43] evacuate their home I've been curious
[0:45] and haven't had the chance to ask anyone
[0:47] this question where did they go did they
[0:49] go to shelters in Homestead and if so
[0:52] were those shelters damaged as well now
[0:54] the shelters we didn't have shelters
[0:56] open at Homestead the shelters were no
[0:58] were north of us a homestead in the
[1:01] category five planning uh Maps is is a
[1:06] flood plain so we did not have shelters
[1:08] available here so in other words the
[1:10] people the 7