HURRICANE CHARLEY
This was a big one. It has apparently killed at least 15 people. The preliminary reports include several people who refused to evacuate their trailer park, a couple of people who shouldn't have been driving (one was washed off the road and apparently drowned), a woman electrocuted at the foot of a power pole by a falling line (I only ask myself why she was at the foot of the power pole in a hurricane), and, my absolute favorite: "A man who stepped outside his house to smoke a cigarette died when a banyan tree fell on him in Fort Myers, authorities said."
Dude. It's a fucking hurricane. You can smoke in the house.
And of course, tons of people were hurt: "Among those seeking treatment at Charlotte Regional was Marty Rietveld, showered with broken glass when the sliding glass door at his home was smashed by a neighbor's roof that blew off. Rietveld broke his leg, and his future son-in-law suffered a punctured leg artery.
'We are moving,' said Rietveld's daughter, Stephanie Rioux. 'We are going out of state.'"
Now, THAT'S the attitude!!!
All the pics below I got from the weather channel website. The pic above is from NASA. The quotes above from the Sun Sentinel. ENJOY!
Beautiful waterspout off Sanibel Island.
Storm surge beating up against the doorway to a bar which previously advertised itself as "Gulf-side," but of course had no idea....
It's been said before, but I'll say it again: GOD HATES TRAILER PARKS.
The u-haul truck you see here is stuck in the middle of what used to be these people's liquor store. No word on what became of the booze: I fear the worst.
The required boats-on-road hurricane pic.
This one is just gorgeous.
This manatee was washed ashore by storm surge. These people were helping him back to the water. Once released, he swam away.
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Tore up town (Punta Gorda).
Destruction from above (Punta Gorda).
Here's a close-up of a house in Punta Gorda that lost its roof.
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