Views of Charley's Damage

Various web sources | 14 Aug 2004 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

Pictures out of Florida speak for themselves:

[Jeff Head]

All in all...bad, but could have been much worse.

[Jeff Head]

FYI.

[Keith in Iowa]

Looks just like the aftermath of Midwestern tornadoes. Sh*t happens. Rebuild. Move on.

[GeronL]

BIG BUMP

I am glad to hear it wasn't worse.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Here, please.

[Jeff Head]

I know what you mean...I drove up to Wichita Fallas, Texas after the huge tornado there many years ago. A mile wide path of complete destruction that also hit a mall. Over 100 died.

Really bad hurricanes can cut a similar path twenty miles wide and many, many more long. This one cut across the whole state of Florida...luckily, it doesn't look terribly horrific on a macro scale. For anyone who lost everything, its bad enough.

But yes, rebuild, put it back together, and continue on in life. We are blessed to live in the best nation on earth for that to be able to occur.

[Jeff Head]

From here in Idaho...it looks bad enough...but it sure could have been a lot worse. Like Andrew back in 1992...that was a doozey.

[GeronL]

They should build their homes and buildings of concrete... www.monolitic.com... I really need to see if thats the right site... hahaha

[GeronL]

monolithic.com

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

God Bless and stay safe!

[Jeff Head]

Thanks...I am pretty safe from Charley up here in Idaho, LOL!

I just posted pics I found on the web of the damage today. probably be a lot more tomorrow.

But I know your thoughts and prayers are for the folks in Florida and those yet in the path of Charley. My prayers and hopes for safety go along with yours to all of them them.

[broadsword]

WOW! What a drag! Sorry, guys. Prayers and thoughts with you.

[Jeff Head]

My prayers and thoughts are for them to. See my post 11.

I'm in Idaho, just posting pics of the damage down there.

[john_virtue]

Did any midwestern state ever ask for $15 billion after tornado strikes. I doubt it. Y'know why? Midwesterners have sense.

[Melinda in TN]

I grew up in Pompano Beach and weathered many hurricanes. Our house and most of those around us were made out of concrete block and they stood up quite well against them. Most of the casualties come from the mobile home parks where the retired people live. No way I would live in a mobile home down there! I'm scared of them here.

We have a lot of tornadoes here and I would rather have a hurricane. At least you have time to prepare for them. They do more wide spread destruction though.

When I was a kid my dad was in management with BellSouth. We would go to the BellSouth shelter for the really bad storms. The shelter had bullet proof glass in front and you could lay on your cot and watch the storm. It gives you an appreciation for the power of nature. We came home from the shelter once and found a six foot alligator in the living room along with numerous snakes. :-)

[Strategerist]

It's simply due to the narrowness of tornadoes.

[raybbr]

There goes the price of plywood. Prayers for Florida.

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for posting this, my friend. We were lucky here on the east coast. Looking at these heartbreaking pics, I say to myself, there but for the grace of God, go I. Our thoughts and our prayers are with all those affected. Thanks again, Jeff.

[dawn53]

I just read an article about a mobile home park where quite a few people were killed.

I'm in Tampa Bay...they evacuated mobile home parks, etc. on Thursday.

I know the storm wasn't forecast to turn inland until it got to Tampa, but since it was skirting the coast, I was supposing that an evac. notice, at least of level A and mobile homes would have been given in any county with a Hurricane Watch or Warning?

Anybody know...was that the case in Punta Gorda? Was an evacuation notice given in advance of the storm's advance and just ignored by the folks in the mobile home park?

[EllaMinnow]

Yes. I'll ping you to a copy of the orders.