25 years ago, Hurricane Andrew rumbled ashore, and meteorologist Bryan Norcross began a marathon 23 hour on-air shift, keeping Floridians informed as the Category 5 storm wreaked havoc on South Florida.
Norcross published a book this year- My Hurricane Andrew Story: The story behind the preparation, the terror, the resilience, and the renowned TV coverage of the Great Hurricane of 1992.
Norcross tells Intersection’s Brendan Byrne that as the hurricane approached he remembered reading about a family sheltering in a laundry tub under a mattress during the great Miami hurricane of 1926.
"That mattress came back to me, and I said friends, here's what I want you to do, I want you to get a mattress off the bed and get ready. When the time comes, you get to your safe place in the hallway, in the closet, in the bathroom, you get under that mattress and we'll ride this out."
"I've heard from hundreds or thousands of people that did that, and they all came out well," says Norcross.
"They all came out well, but many of them moved the mattress at the end of it and saw the sky, because the house came apart around them."
Norcross also reflects on the way new technology has changed the way people get hurricane information, and whether Floridians today are really prepared for a big storm.