hurricanes. he was talking about building codes there. i know you ve lived in the area before. you can see in that area, the structures that were built prehurricane andrew and after hurricane andrew with the buildings codes. there s such a difference in terms of how things are built. that has to do mostly with wind. but the storm surge, it s hard to build anything that can withstand a storm surge of 10 to 15 feet. it s a great point, john. we were looking at video earlier in this block where you saw a home with a roof completely torn off. you could see inside of the home, you could see their bedroom. we had some other video that showed the rushing water and you can see the wind and the trees just really blowing around, quite violently. and this is the video that i was talking about. but it really gives you a sense of the destruction, damage and power behind the storm. and to the point that john and senator rubio were making the character of these
in the end, the smokestack didn t fall, and radiation wasn t released, and the nuclear units remained in stable condition. but that was a scare, what happened at turkey point nuclear power plant in south florida in 1992 when a cat 5 came calling. 25 miles away in miami, there was utter devastation from andrew. the hurricane ripped the roofs off houses and flattened whole neighbored. andrew changed florida in terms of who lives there and what people expect from extraordinary storms. and you can in fact see that in the lessons that florida took from andrew, which are all the more important tonight as hurricane irma, which is even larger than andrew, now churns through the atlantic toward florida. after andrew, florida toughened up the state s buildings codes. they now have some of the toughest building codes in the country and it matters because hurricane irma is heading right for them. this is going to be a test. we ll see how the tougher building codes stand up. hurricane irma has been