Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday nights opposite CBS's popular Falcon Crest, the show languished in the bottom half of the Nielsens for its first few months on the air. But viewers gradually began to take notice of its high-gloss visual style and MTV-inspired use of rock music, its gritty South Florida ambience and the cool charisma of Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, who star as Miami Detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Since the end of May, the show's reruns have finished in the Nielsen Top Ten for ten of eleven weeks. Following the pattern of another innovative...
Yerkovich (who supervised the first five episodes after the pilot, then left to develop film projects for Universal) was fascinated by South Florida as a setting for his new-style police show. "Even when I was on Hill Street Blues, I was collecting information on Miami," he says. "I thought of it as sort of a modern-day American Casablanca. It seemed to be an interesting socioeconomic tidepool: the incredible number of refugees from Central America and Cuba, the already extensive Cuban-American community, and on top of all that the drug trade. There is a fascinating amount of service...
...four nail-biting days, furious Elena was manic and capricious. First the storm feinted at New Orleans, then howled toward Florida's Gulf Coast, then veered off abruptly. The hurricane lunged and snarled at about 500 miles of waterfront in four states like a vicious dog on a leash. Many in its projected path began to feel like Service Station Attendant Johnny Leland in Yankeetown, Fla., who said, "I can't stand this. I just wish the s.o.b. would come in, hit us and get it over with...
...dwellings, leaving hundreds of people homeless and causing insured private-property losses of more than $350 million in Mississippi alone. During its wild meanderings, Hurricane Elena left behind an additional $13.8 million of insured private-property damages in Louisiana, $100.3 million in Alabama and $46.8 million in Florida...
...huge dislocations forced by the hurricane's peculiarly changeable temperament put the storm in a class by itself. Some 2 million people had to be evacuated from vulnerable homes in states on the Gulf. Florida, though it has had to cope with many a hurricane, recorded its largest evacuation ever, with as many as 1.25 million residents being forced out of dwellings or holiday retreats. Worse still, Elena's unpredictable zigging and zagging compelled hundreds of thousands of Floridians to evacuate twice. Officials took some heart, even if the inconvenienced did not, from the fact that the mass movements...