HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Twenty years ago this week, Hurricane Andrew landed near here in a rising rage before dawn, its winds spinning into a tightening cone that peeled houses off this fingertip of south Florida by the thousands. The storm's damage transformed global hurricane assumptions and much of the local landscape. But for all that, Andrew's terrifying effects have failed to provide the most potent cure to this area's susceptibility to hurricanes. It didn't inspire people to move out of harm's way. Today, Homestead and a row of adjoining towns that drift south from Miami are roughly twice as developed as they were 20 years ago. Go to story #1