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A beautiful monster
Hurricane Charley
August 9 - 15, 2004

Hurricane Charley strengthened rapidly just before striking the southwestern coast of Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. Charley was the strongest hurricane to hit the United States since Andrew in 1992 and, although small in size, it caused catastrophic wind damage in Charlotte County, Florida. Serious damage occurred well inland over the Florida peninsula.

This spray-painted message expresses the sentiment of many Key West, Florida, residents as they wait for Hurricane Charley - but it messed them!
Friday the 13th for Charlotte County Florida!

Highway US 1, the main evacuation route from the Florida Keys, is clogged with people who want to get out of the way of Hurricane Charley, which is predicted to make landfall along the west coast of Florida on Friday.
A waterspout drops from the clouds above the Gulf of Mexico prior to Hurricane Charley’s landfall near Sanibel Island. Island residents were under a mandatory evacuation Friday -- the island drawbridge closed to traffic at 8:00 p.m.

Yoaris Barrios and her 3-year-old daughter Madeline, walk through what’s left of their house after Hurricane Charley roared through Batabano, Cuba, Friday.
Cyclists and onlookers gather near a water tower that fell to powerful Hurricane Charley in Bauta, Cuba.  We sometimes forget that these storms affect other countries as well!

A car remains raised by a jack Saturday at a damaged service station in Punta Gorda, Florida. The southwest coastal town of Punta Gorda was hit Friday by the full strength of Hurricane Charley.
Hurricane Charley leaves hangars damaged at an airport near Lake Wales, Florida, south of Orlando, after striking the southwest coast and moving north.

Search crews went door-to-door Saturday in Punta Gorda, Florida, to check for survivors, sometimes breaking down doors with a sledgehammer.

Color infrared photograph showing that nearly all of the trees have been blown down with their tips pointing toward the Gulf of Mexico.
Downed Trees: This color infrared photograph located one kilometer north of the breach on North Captiva Island was acquired with NASA EAARL on August 16, 2004, three days after Hurricane Charley's landfall. (The view is down; the image is like a map.) With the counterclockwise swirl of the storm, the winds to the right of landfall blow onshore while the winds to the left of landfall blow offshore. Nearly all of the trees have been blown down with their tips pointing toward the Gulf of Mexico, indicating that this location was to the left of landfall where the wind was blowing offshore. (Color infrared turns the vegetation in the image red.)

 

 
The Destruction of Captive Island, Florida
In Memory of those who fell during the storm! Hurricane Andrew took my next door neighbor!
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