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Homestead, FL post-Hurricane Andrew
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Locations: Derringer Home, Tent City, Homestead
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Note: this was Ground zero of the worst storm (at the time) to make landfall in US history
- Johnette and her family lived here in a single-family home that somehow survived when so many others were torn to shreds.
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As a story progresses and we’re about 40 days or so removed from the storm, this area was still destroyed.
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Trash heaps of debris lined the streets.
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Separate piles of tree limbs and brush were everywhere.
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MORE on Hurricane Andrew by the Miami Herald
The pics in the gallery below were taken from the book The Big One.
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Tent City at Harris Field
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Located in the heart of Homestead, FL
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This was a HS football stadium converted into a Tent City by the US army
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The idea is that it was once a place of community pride, now it’s a home for people with nowhere else to go
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The pics in the gallery below were taken from the book The Big One.
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Root High (based on Miami Palmetto High School)​
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Miami Palmetto Senior High is the real school on SW 117 Street on which Root High is based—has indoor/outdoor halls)
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The school is in South Dade County in an area north of Homestead affected but not devastated by the storm
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Homes in this area were nice in 1992 (more upscale than rural/working-class Homestead)
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By the time we get here in our story, it’s possible to see trees with braces (indicating they were uprooted but savable)
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The key to Root is its parking lot
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HERE is an article about the parking lot at Palmetto
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Overtown (during the riots of 1980)
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This is where Mose is from.
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We see this location in Flashback BEFORE the storm
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It was one of the poorest areas of Miami in 1980
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very urban, very black
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HERE is a site of great pictures by the Miami Herald of the riots and the aftermath
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Shay Lovelle's House (Cocoplum in Coral Gables)
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Shay's father is the most famous and successful defense attorney in the South.​
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The home reflects it.
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The area (Coral Gables) was not nearly as affected by the storm as more southern areas like Homestead were.
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