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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (701019)	9/9/2005 3:57:55 PM
From: HPilot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Andrew --- although very strong --- was a baby-sized storm... It was not a baby storm, it was more like a huge tornado than a small hurricane. Strong is an understatement, eddy currents between the eyewall and eye were like small tornadoes with wind speeds of over 200 MPH. In once case they picked up a roof made of concrete decking and the concrete beams it was bolted too and carried it almost 100 yards. I sat in my car in my garage which was located on the downwind side of the storm and it sounded like a jet engine mixed with sounds of the roof ripping apart and debris hitting the side of the house for several hours. Fortunately I was on the north outside edge of the eye wall, it could have been much worse. still it ripped of the roof, plywood decking, and trusses over the master bedroom. A piece of broken plywood had flown through the house like a flying saw and cut through the stucco, plywood, and broke the stud causing that wall to partially collapse. My house was concrete block on the first floor and 6 inch stud wall on the second floor. Just a few miles south, some single story concrete houses were blown completely down.