Charley

08/03/10

This is the morning after Hurricane Charlie came through our neighbourhood at 7:38pm on Friday August 13th, 2004. He couldn't have picked a better date for those who are superstitious. We were right in the eye of the storm and it took about 3 hours to get past us. It came ashore near Punta Gourda and basically came up Hw 17 until it reached Bartow and then kinda switched across to Hw 27. Many people had their homes severly damaged, we were lucky and just lost some of our roof tiles and had broken windows. This is me and Cooper out the back getting ready to clean up all the mess. We also went out in the truck to find out what had been happening as we lost our electricity, phone and cable.

So here's what it looked like out of our front porch right in the middle of the storm and here's what it looks like normally. Can you spot the difference?

This is the back road that leads up to our house from Lake Otis, well blocked by this big live oak.

Our neighbour across the street, had one of their trees come down and hit the side of the house.

The area near my work didn't get hit too badly, but a lot of the planted trees got uprooted.

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