1.   Being prepared is a lesson that some South Florida residents said they learned after witnessing the devastation of Hurricane Andrew.

2.   Mrs. Meehling, a volunteer firefighter, said she had never witnessed such devastation.

3.   Still others, like Gephardt, have witnessed the devastation up close and cannot quite get over what they saw.

4.   Culbertson and his two Russian crewmates, Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin, actually witnessed the devastation at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.