Homestead, Fla. ? With Latin dancing, bustling food stalls and kite flying exhibitions, this tropical farming town celebrated how far it has come since Hurricane Andrew nearly blew it away 10 years ago.

At the Second Wind festival, residents who lived through Andrew and those who moved to southern Miami-Dade County after the hurricane walked through a street fair downtown. The two-day festival wrapped up Saturday night with a concert and an appearance by Gov. Jeb Bush.

“I don’t believe there’s a community in this country that had to rebuild from the devastation and magnitude of Hurricane Andrew,” said Bush, who lived in Miami when the hurricane made landfall on Aug. 24, 1992.

Andrew destroyed 80 percent of the houses in Homestead, and more than 9,000 of the city’s 26,700 residents moved away.

The Red Cross spent more than $70 million in relief and recovery in South Florida after the hurricane.

Elda Sanchez had been vacationing in Orlando when Hurricane Andrew destroyed her home.

“When I came back two days later it took me four hours to find my house,” Sanchez said.

“We are here to celebrate,” she said.