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1992 Hurricane Research Paper
Hurricanes can cause a lot of damage. My hurricane is Hurricane Andrew of 1992. Hurricanes can pop up at any time. They can cause massive amounts of damage.
A hurricane starts as mass amounts of wind. What happens is the pressure drops. There is sometimes a storm and usually a mass amount of clouds. The weather would be cloudy and rainy during the storm. The hurricane that this paper is about Andrew of 1992 in Florida. Trees were toppled and agricultural damage was done. Andrew reached hurricane strength on the morning of August 22, 1992, becoming the first Atlantic hurricane to form from a tropical wave in nearly two years. An eye formed that morning and the rate of strength increased. The damage ended up costing about 25 billion dollars.

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