TWO MILLION WARNED OFF WEST FLORIDA COAST AS "SCARY" CHARLEY GROWS

Miami Herald ^ | 08/13/2004 | Brendan Farrington

[JesseHousman]

As residents of SW Florida, we've decided to ride it out and not join the highways clogged with evacuees.

[TruthWillWin]

Hurricane Charlie should have been called "Clyde".

[small_l_libertarian]

I'm in Tampa, about 2 miles north of downtown and 1 block from the river. I'm staying put. Wish me luck!

[Corin Stormhands]

Stay safe. We'll be praying for all of you down there.

Isabel came thru my back yard last year.

[Izzy Dunne]

Here it is from Key West:

[Quilla]

Prayers for you and all in Charley's path. Stay safe.

[JesseHousman]

We're in Naples, 1 1/2 miles from the gulf. We'll be thinking of you today!

[OXENinFLA]

http://web.naplesnews.com/sections/webcams/front.html

[OXENinFLA]

http://web.naplesnews.com/sections/webcams/front.html

WOW! These are some good live feeds on beaches.

[Deguello]

Bump.

Good Luck.

[fatima]

I will be praying all day for everyone,stay safe,fatima

[Conservababe]

Aren't they predicting sixteen foot water surges there?

[southernnorthcarolina]

As of the 8 AM advisory, the direction was NNW; but latest radar appears to indicate that it's moving a touch east of due north. Could be just a wobble, of course, but it looks to me as if the eye is likely to go inland south of Tampa, maybe between Sanibel and Sarasota.

[G-dzilla]

SE St. Petersburg. I'm staying...

[traumer]

Cuban President Fidel Castro listens to Jose Rubiera (L), Cuba's chief weather forecaster, as he explains how Hurricane Charley is heading toward the Havana area, as television journalist Maribel Puerto looks on in Havana, August 13, 2004. Authorities evacuated 149,000 people from flood-prone areas of western Cuba and precarious colonial-era buildings in danger of collapse in downtown Havana

[traumer]

Hurricane Charlie should have been called "JOHN".

[PogySailor]

Stay safe fellow Freepers.

[OXENinFLA]

Hurricane Charlie should have been called "JOHN".

Huh???

[dstarr]

That's the same thing I said on another thread. It's coming so close behind Bonnie that it would have been cute to have done that.

[mhking]

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