Skip to content

  • Home
  • Bio
  • Writing
  • Contact

John Dos Passos Coggin

Author

Home > Lawton Chiles > More on Hurricane Andrew

More on Hurricane Andrew

admin September 5, 2016

Now that Hurricane Hermine has passed through Florida and the Mid-Atlantic, it’s a good time to reconsider hurricane response policy at the state level. Veteran Florida reporter Bill Cotterell has another piece on Florida hurricane policy. Here is an excerpt:

Gov. Lawton Chiles, virtually moved to Miami late in his re-election year, when Hurricane Andrew slammed South Florida in 1992.

Chiles, known as “Walkin’ Lawton” for his folksy campaign style of getting out among regular people, landed in Miami before Andrew had completely left the western side of the state. Creation of the cavernous Emergency Operations Center in the Southwood office complex was a spinoff of the Andrew experience, and the Chiles administration later established a secondary command post in Broward County.

To read more about Chiles’ policy on Hurricane Andrew, consult my biography of Lawton Chiles.

Posted in Lawton Chiles
Tagged florida, hurricane andrew, hurricane hermine, lawton chiles, miami
Previous Post: Summer’s End
Next Post: Artists & Innovators: Stuart Riordan, Painter

Archives

  • May 2025
  • March 2025
  • February 2025
  • November 2024
  • July 2024
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • September 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • March 2023
  • January 2023
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • July 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • February 2021
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • January 2018
  • November 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015

Copyright © 2025 John Dos Passos Coggin. Powered by WordPress and Stargazer.

Verified by MonsterInsights