re: Hurricane Andrew 1992 - 34 years ago this morning (FL) through Wednesday morning (LA)

My freshman year at LSU. Went to class 3 days. Then said at home for a week with no power.

My family went stay at the school my grandparents were janitors at. The next day was my 13th birthday. We didn't have any damage but the next morning when we left, my dad was listening to the radio on the drive back home. No one told me Happy Birthday. The DJ said "It's August 25th..." and my parents looked at each other and apologized profusely.

Was a Sophomore at LSU living in Chateau Kirby at the time. Partied our arse off and watched it blow the roof off the IHOP. It was blowing pea gravel off the roof of Kirby like .22 rounds popping car windows left and right. Luckily my mustang was behind a big arse truck and was spared. Lunch ladies couldn’t make it in so our drunk asses got drafted to go make breakfast in Pentagon cafeteria. That was a shite show. One of the few places in BR with power. Left a few days later for NOLA with my roommate to see Metallica.

I grew up in St Martinville and was 8 years old. I will never forget boarding up windows and shoveling sand bags all morning the day before it hit. It was the hardest I worked in my life up to that point. We got Popeyes for lunch and it was amazing. Evacuated up north and when we returned I was shocked at seeing all of the dead birds in our yards. I didn’t expect that at all.

I just started my senior at Mandeville High. I remember a few of us went out to the Mandeville lakefront and the waves were huge and crashing over the wall. It was pretty cool. We decided to try to play football in an open area until the police made us leave.

I remember it well. We had three small children and lived in a mobile home at the time. We evacuated to my parents' house and rode out the hurricane in the living room because Dad had reinforced that area of the house when he had it built. It was probably the scariest hurricane I experienced because my children were small. Neither of our homes had damage, but the electricity was off for about a week.