Thursday, May 17th, 2007 — Flying debris smashed through a window and Hurricane Andrew’s screaming winds pushed inside the home, splintering walls and tearing off the roof. Parents and children huddled under a mattress in a bathtub or closet as jagged pieces of wood and metal whirled around them. That scenario emerged Aug. 24, 1992, when Category 5 Andrew damaged or destroyed more than 125,000 homes and left about 250,000 people homeless in Florida’s south Miami-Dade County. The destruction was born from a mix of 165 mph winds and outdated building codes, shoddy construction and poor inspection practices in Miami-Dade — which had the state’s strongest hurricane wind codes at the time.