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Damage from Charley (At Least 60 dead; death to rise).

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Mill

Lifer
Florida officials estimated the property damage to be $14.5 billion and attributed another $2.3 billion in losses to business interruptions. An estimated 377,000 buildings were damaged Florida officials estimated the property damage to be $14.5 billion and attributed another $2.3 billion in losses to business interruptions. An estimated 377,000 buildings were damaged.

Reports on NBC-2 and from newspapers of complete devastation in Punta Gorda and Charlotte County. There was someone who said there was significant loss of life with bodies being found on streets. 3 hospitals had extreme damage.

Hardee County Florida: CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE OVER COUNTY...UNNUMBERED INJURIES. HOSPITAL OUT OF SERVICE. (TBW)

Polk County Florida: SEVERAL MOBILE HOMES DESTROYED...MANY POWER LINES DOWN (TBW)

NURSING HOME DAMAGED WITH 100 PEOPLE REPORTED INJURIED.

Desoto County Florida: ROOF TORN OFF A SHELTER WITH 1200 PEOPLE INSIDE (TBW)

We won't know the full extent until tommorrow. Around Orlando they reported widespread damage in Kissimmee, and my brother had some damage to his house, but was unable to leave. They only have a phone and power, cable, etc are all out.

I hope the damage is milder than being reported.
 
Hopefully no one has died from this hurricane. Property can be restored, human life cannot 🙁
 
I'm pissed. All week long "Tampa is going to get hit!", "EVACUATE!", "Board everything up!", "Eight to twelve inches of rain!"....


Not ONE inch of rain!!!!!!!!!!


Plus all day my family was nagging me begging me to come to Orlando. It ended up hitting them worse!
 
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
A little over half of what Andrew caused 🙁
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I actually expect it to go much higher(not necessarily higher than Andrew) simply because it cut across the entire state, and because many areas don't have communications yet. Also, areas like Orlando already had nightfall thus nothing can be looked at. The Aerial view tomorrow will be a sobering sight.
 
Originally posted by: MangoTBG
I'm pissed. All week long "Tampa is going to get hit!", "EVACUATE!", "Board everything up!", "Eight to twelve inches of rain!"....


Not ONE inch of rain!!!!!!!!!!


Plus all day my family was nagging me begging me to come to Orlando. It ended up hitting them worse!
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And if the path had deviated Tampa would be looking like Punta Gorda. I'd be overjoyed and not pissed about it. Tampa's precautions were handled extremely well, and I only wish Ft. Meyers, Charlotte County, Polk, Osecola, etc had the same time to prepare.
 
Wow, I hope everyone in that nursing home was ok... It would be next to impossible to move a lot of older residents who are truly dependent on the care of others.
 
I just left the UCF EOC, although i'm still on campus - the damage here is amzing...hundreds of down trees, two buildings lost their roofs, and many other have other misc parts ripping off of them. It was simply amazing, i've never seen anything like it. I watched the wind blow over 2 50' trees.
 
Originally posted by: Mill
And if the path had deviated Tampa would be looking like Punta Gorda. I'd be overjoyed and not pissed about it. Tampa's precautions were handled extremely well, and I only wish Ft. Meyers, Charlotte County, Polk, Osecola, etc had the same time to prepare.
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Everyone should have been prepared. When you live in Florida, you know that these things can hit anywhere. If it's scheduled to hit any part of the peninsula, I'd board up if I lived in any other part.
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: Mill
And if the path had deviated Tampa would be looking like Punta Gorda. I'd be overjoyed and not pissed about it. Tampa's precautions were handled extremely well, and I only wish Ft. Meyers, Charlotte County, Polk, Osecola, etc had the same time to prepare.
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Everyone should have been prepared. When you live in Florida, you know that these things can hit anywhere. If it's scheduled to hit any part of the peninsula, I'd board up if I lived in any other part.
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What SHOULD and what does happen of course varies. When they keep saying(as did the models) that Tampa/St. Pete was the target and not Ft. Meyers, then the same preps won't be made. There was 97kt winds forecasted to be in Tampa, and 45kt winds in Ft. Meyers. That needed to have been reversed. I'm not saying it was a bust, or that people shouldn't have been prepared, but Tampa was in great shape, and the majority of the other people were less prepared..
 
So sad...

Hundreds of people were missing in Charlotte and thousands were left homeless. "It's Andrew all over again," he said. "We believe there's significant loss of life."

Sallade did not have an estimate on a specific number of fatalities. He said it may take days to get a final toll.

Bob Carpenter, a Charlotte County Sheriff's Office spokesman, said Saturday that there are 31 mobile home parks in the county that suffered major damage-- some with more than 1,000 units. He said teams have been sent to each park to search for bodies and survivors, but getting into them has been tough.

"We just couldn't get the vehicles in -- there is so much debris," he said.
 
I sat in my breeze-way with a cup of coffee and watch&listened to the storm roll through. It was eeirly cool out, Orlando had record low temp of 68f yesterday. We had minor damage locally while down south on the other coast people were getting hammered mercilessly 🙁 All the idiots here who didn't take it seriously, just got their second reminder that Hurricanes are killers!
 
This hurricane should serve as an example that they are completely unpredictable. Hopefully in the future if there's threat of a hurricane, they'll expand the evacuation warnings to include anywhere that may have a chance of getting hit.
 
Originally posted by: KLin
This hurricane should serve as an example that they are completely unpredictable. Hopefully in the future if there's threat of a hurricane, they'll expand the evacuation warnings to include anywhere that may have a chance of getting hit.
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In a perfect world. These people who live in manufactured or mobile homes staying put with a hurricane coming, makes me think the Darwin awards should have a group category.
 
Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Originally posted by: KLin
This hurricane should serve as an example that they are completely unpredictable. Hopefully in the future if there's threat of a hurricane, they'll expand the evacuation warnings to include anywhere that may have a chance of getting hit.
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In a perfect world. These people who live in manufactured or mobile homes staying put with a hurricane coming, makes me think the Darwin awards should have a group category.
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Mobile homes should be freaking banned. We recall and suspend the delivery of cars that are unsafe, and mobile homes are about as safe as riding out the storm laying on the beach.
 
I was in Miami during Andrew. We got very lucky that the storm hit 40 miles south. Miami would have been destroyed, as would have Tampa if the storm placed a direct hit. Very sad situation, thousands of people packed up and left Homestead/South Dade county after Andrew. People without hurricane insurance just took off. I suspect the same will happen again.

Its amazing how these storms deviate from the projected path. I'm sure a lot of people in the counties that got hit hard thought they would be safe since all the projections saw a direct hit on Tampa. I have several friends that evacuted south to Orlando which in the end also got hit, but luckily the storm was downgraded to category 2.
 
Every late summer I hear the hurricane stories, and I have to wonder at what point does the goverment and insurance companies go 'fvck it, your living in one of the most dangerous areas of america property damage wise, if something happens your own your own."
 
Originally posted by: Chu
Every late summer I hear the hurricane stories, and I have to wonder at what point does the goverment and insurance companies go 'fvck it, your living in one of the most dangerous areas of america property damage wise, if something happens your own your own."
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If you saw what my hurricane rider on my home policy runs me you'd rethink that 😉
 
Originally posted by: MangoTBG
I'm pissed. All week long "Tampa is going to get hit!", "EVACUATE!", "Board everything up!", "Eight to twelve inches of rain!"....


Not ONE inch of rain!!!!!!!!!!


Plus all day my family was nagging me begging me to come to Orlando. It ended up hitting them worse!
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You have to remember Mother Nature can do what she wants when she wants. Mother Nature controls us. Hurricanes can turn in the matter of seconds.
 
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