Replies to post #32 on Punta Gorda Florida

[Phil(Hot Rod Chevy)]

A Coast Guard helicopter taxis out for take-off past an overturned airplane at the Charlotte Country Airport in Punta Gorda, Florida on August 15, 2004. The airport sustained major damage when Hurricane Charley that passed over Friday afternoon leaving destruction and more than half a million without power in the state. REUTERS/Charles W. Luzier

[Mariner*]

Warehouse in Arcadia is flattened after Hurricane Charley devastated south Florida.
A warehouse in Arcadia, Florida is seen after being completely destroyed August 14, 2004 after Hurricane Charley swept through the area. Across storm-struck southwest Florida, dazed residents emerged Saturday morning from damaged homes or returned from public shelters to find their lives turned inside out by Hurricane Charley, which struck Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda and Fort Myers with ferocious 145 mph (233 kph) winds and a flooding 15-foot (4.5-meter) storm surge. Hurricane Charley battered multimillion-dollar houses on exclusive islands off southwest Florida, prompting an initial damage estimate of $3 billion in one county alone, an official said Saturday. REUTERS/Pierre Ducharme
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