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Subject: Andrews makes Homestead -- homeless
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 15:16:24 PDT
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	HOMESTEAD, Fla. (UPI) -- Hurricane Andrew made the south Dade County
community of Homestead homeless as disaster assessments Tuesday pegged
major damage to 95 percent of the city.
	Residents were left psychologically battered, broke, hungry and
homeless.
	``We have nothing and we have no where to go,'' said Laura Schwartz,
who was holed up at the Hampton Inn near Homestead.
	Schwartz had stayed with friends in the Redlands, a farming community
west of Homestead, until the hurricane roared through.
	``There's nothing out there left,'' she said.
	When the home where she was staying blew away, she planned to move in
with her grandparents in Naranja Lakes, also in South Dade.
	``Naranja Lakes was literally lifted out of the ground. The
destruction was just incredible. I have no idea what I'm going to do
now,'' Schwartz said. ``People are trying their best to help us out but
there's not enough to go around.''
	Schwartz said South Florida residents have always lived with the
threat of a hurricane and had weathered many minor storms.
	``This was the worst. This was the big one and we got it,'' Schwartz
said.
	People weren't the only homeless victims of Andrew.
	Schwartz said while traveling U.S. 1 through South Dade she saw a
monkey hanging from a truck. She guessed the animal was a refugee from
Monkey Jungle, a tourist attraction located right off the roadway.
	DeSoto Trailer Park in Homestead was nothing but mangled sheets of
aluminum that had once been walls and soggy heaps of clothing and
appliances.
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	HOMESTEAD, Fla. (UPI) -- Hurricane Andrew made the south Dade County
community of Homestead homeless as disaster assessments Tuesday pegged
major damage to 95 percent of the city.
	Residents were left psychologically battered, broke, hungry and
homeless.
	``We have nothing and we have no where to go,'' said Laura Schwartz,
who was holed up at the Hampton Inn near Homestead.
	Schwartz had stayed with friends in the Redlands, a farming community
west of Homestead, until the hurricane roared through.
	``There's nothing out there left,'' she said.
	When the home where she was staying blew away, she planned to move in
with her grandparents in Naranja Lakes, also in South Dade.
	``Naranja Lakes was literally lifted out of the ground. The
destruction was just incredible. I have no idea what I'm going to do
now,'' Schwartz said. ``People are trying their best to help us out but
there's not enough to go around.''
	Schwartz said South Florida residents have always lived with the
threat of a hurricane and had weathered many minor storms.
	``This was the worst. This was the big one and we got it,'' Schwartz
said.
	People weren't the only homeless victims of Andrew.
	Schwartz said while traveling U.S. 1 through South Dade she saw a
monkey hanging from a truck. She guessed the animal was a refugee from
Monkey Jungle, a tourist attraction located right off the roadway.
	DeSoto Trailer Park in Homestead was nothing but mangled sheets of
aluminum that had once been walls and soggy heaps of clothing and
appliances.
	Judy Allor of Plantation Key had come to make sure her husband's
great-uncle was safe. Police had evacuated the trailer park and, after
being assured the relative was safe, Allor looked through the wreckage.
	It took a while to find which pile of rubble had been the great-
uncle's trailer because the winds dragged it 200 yards, Allor said.
	``This is unbelievable,'' she said. ``This is numbing.''
	Still, she was delighted to find the metal strong box containing
important papers and utterly baffled to find one china tea cup perfectly
intact.
	Homestead police officer Lisa Rudolph manned the door at Homestead
City Hall, turning away those who had come in vain seeking water and
trying to comfort people looking for lost loved ones.
	``The damage estimate is 95 percent of this city. There's really
nothing that's salvageable,'' she said.
	Randy Sparks of Cutler Ridge, just north of Homestead, weathered the
storm at a friend's house in Kendall, the northern edge of the area
impacted by the eye of the hurricane. He came back to find the walls
gone from his home.
	``The building is barely standing,'' Sparks said. ``My landlord came
down and started to cry.''
	Spraks said he had arranged to store what belongings he could save at
another friend's house but added he has no idea where he'll live.
	``Now we're basically homeless,'' he said.
	Sgt. Ed Bowe of the Homestead police said authorities were still
searching for people missing after the storm.
	``We're still doing body searches. Looting is bad as well,'' Bowe
said. ``It's a complete disaster. The survivors I've seen are
devastated.''
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