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Rose Richardson is a seventeen year old freshman at the University of Miami studying medicine. She is from San Antonio Texas and enjoys community service. Jones: Hurricane Andrew Study. Rose Richardson, please give us some background information on yourself. Richardson: Well, I am from San Antonio, Texas which never gets hurricanes, they get tornadoes and thunder storms but never hurricanes, so it was a new experience for me. And I am here because they (University of Miami) gave me a lot of money. No I am just kidding because I want to study medicine. Jones: Okay. Number 1, when did you first realize that the hurricane might hit Miami? Richardson: I didn’t realize it I just watched the news an it said a hurricane is coming. So there is no such thing as realizing it. Jones: Okay. Did you make any preparations for it? Richardson: Well . . . I prepared whatever they(administration) told me to, but I had just arrived a few hours before hand, well actually I arrived a day before hand, but maybe it was just a few hours. Since I had went through a day of hell(losing luggage on plane) before that. Jones: Okay. What did you think the storm would be like? Richardson: Very violent, very costly. . . cause more emotion to be hyper emotions that were not necessary. Had people overreacting to any situation that involves a natural disaster. Jones: Where were you doing the storm? Richardson: During the storm, I was on the fifth floor of Hecht in University of Miami. Jones: Who was with you? Richardson: Everyone and their mother, and their dog. Jones: Did anything unexpected happen there? Jones: Well, I had to take my shot in the middle of it all. Made me feel good having to take an insulin shot in the middle of a hurricane with everyone staring at me. Jones: What were your concern and thoughts during the storm? Richardson: I’d gone through hell coming here and this is not getting any better. Jones: After the hurricane, what did you do? Richardson: I went upstairs and made sure that there was no water on my floor and just kind of chilled. Jones: What did you do after that? Richardson: I volunteered to help clean up some of the damage done in a little bit south of here. Not in Homestead South, but in some areas that had been badly damaged. Jones: What kind of things did you help do? Richardson: I helped clear out wreckage of a pool area that had been surrounded by metal and it was now all in the pool, and I helped clean up a yard, and get rid of a lot of waterdamaged materials inside of a home that survived although not quite . . . very well. Jones: What other things did you observe? Richardson: I observed... mostly landscaping was demolished and we had to go through a lot of backroads and swerve off the regular path because there were too many trees in the roads and brushes and things like that. So it took longer than expected to get there. Jones: Please describe the impact of the hurricane on your family ,friends and yourself. Richardson: My family could care less. My friends were very concerned, which surprised me, because when I returned after the evacuation period, I had a lot of mail from my friends in regards to whether or not I was okay, to please contact them. And one friend who I hadn’t even heard from in over a year, not only asked how I was, but sent me a check. Jones: Please describe the impact of the hurricane on your school? Richardson: I think it through everyone off because they were really siked about coming, especially the freshman. But, then again it made them feel joyous simply because they got to go home for a little while longer and see their family and friends that they were missing when they originally came. Jones: Did anything positive come out of the hurricane? Richardson: I think it made people think twice about how they just quickly get something done instead of thinking thoroughly like what’s the affect if I don’t do this to my house? What’s the affect if I don’t prepare before hand? And I think that scared a lot of people enough so that materials that are used, especially here in Miami, for building will be re defined so that they’ll stand up to future things. Jones: Finally, is there anything else that you would like to add? Richardson: The hurricane didn’t scare me. Most people were scared of it, but natural disasters. . . I mean . . . they happen you can’t stop them, so rather than be scared, just live with it and if you die well that’s not that scary either if it’s something like that. I mean if you believe in an afterlife, I guess that’s not scary. If you don’t it might be scary. But, I’m very deeply religious, and I believe in Heaven so I wasn’t really scared of it. I think a lot of people overreacted because other people around them overreacting and they don’t initially really feel like it’s something to be extremely terrified about. Jones: Okay, thank you.
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