Satellite receiving station gets critical data to first responders

The violent winds and that "terrible howling sound” had subsided by dawn, a clear indication to Hans Graber that the small but powerful storm had passed. But when the University of Miami researcher, his two young sons, and his pregnant wife emerged from their home's bathroom, where they took refuge for four hours on the early morning of Aug. 24, 1992, the nightmare was just beginning. Hurricane Andrew's ferocious winds had ripped away 70 percent of the roof, turning every room inside his family's southern Miami-Dade County home into shallow wading pools. Tiles dislodged from a neighbor's roof had flown in every direction, shattering nearly all the home's windows. Graber's entire neighborhood, in fact, was in ruins. Special Feature: A ferocious cyclone, Hurricane Andrew helped launch a new era of storm research.