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Hurricane Charley – 3 years later
This is a date that will stick in the minds of everyone who was living in the Port Charlotte/Punta Gorda area at the time. Friday, August 13th, 2004. The day that Hurricane Charley, who was supposed to be headed to the Tampa area, suddenly turned and came straight up Charlotte Harbor. Hurricane Charley and its victims were sort of forgotten the following year, after Katrina hit. But to those of us who live here, we’ll never forget.
This entry is graphic-heavy, I’ll say straight out. Ben got some excellent pictures, and sometimes I think it’s good to look at them, to remember, and to realize just how far we’ve come since then.
There’s also some wonderful coverage on some of the local news sites. I’ll include the links here, if you have time, go look. They’ve done a great job.
Hurricane Charley – Moment By Moment
This is NBC-2′s coverage. They actually relive the hurricane, as it was happening. It gives me chills to watch this.
The Herald-Tribune has some great pictures.
Ok, on with our pictures. These were all taken in the first week or so after the hurricane. I’m not going to try to title them, just looking is enough. If you’re from this area and have memories you’d like to share, please feel free to leave them in the comments. If you have pictures or video you’d like me to post, please e-mail me.
Davastating. I never knew it was that bad. The pictures show all the horror.
But Tammy, why would anything bad happen to competent white people who can take care of themselves without resorting to tribal behavior, why? Oh the humanity!
RG
I left my house in Christmas Florida (between Orlando and Titusville) to go to my home in Port Orange (about 7 miles south of Daytona Beach) in the very early hours of Friday the 13th of August, 2004. When I left the 5 acre ranch, I didn’t prepare to be hit by the storm because it wasn’t going to be a worry for a central Florida home… so I thought.
That storm destroyed many things at the property in Christmas from losing power, taking out my water system, and hitting a corner of a prefab home with a tree. All of that didn’t seem that bad at the time… all fixable… but the continued rains, the fallowing 2 more hurricanes to hit that property, and waiting for insurance help lead to the lost of the house to mold. There was so much water inside of the newly renovated home that everything needs to be torn out and replaced. These are the things that we could not know in the first several days after Charley hit.
I hope that you have recovered completely. I just lucky that I had a second home to live in because I had to give up living in the mold infested home in Christmas Florida.