Keeping in touch
Robert Duda, 46, the property manager of Fuda Plaza in Port Charlotte, writes his phone number on the walls of the building that was destroyed by Charley. He has been out of town since before the storm and has not heard from his tenants.
(SUN-SENTINEL/JOE AMON)
Big job ahead
Artist Darryl Pottorf begins cleaning up after surveying the damage to his Captiva home, where paintings were damaged by water. “You look around and say what do I do first?” he said.
(SUN-SENTINEL/JOE AMON)
After the storm
Anne Loehnert, 87, holds one of the few possessions she has recovered after Hurricane Charley. The storm destroyed her home at a mobile home park in Punta Gorda.
(Sun-Sentinel/Joe Amon)
"What do we do now?" asked John Morrison, wondering aloud how he and his wife of 57 years, Jewel Morrison, are going to pick up the pieces of their Punta Gorda mobile home left behind by Hurricane Charley. "I don't even know where to begin, but it's just stuff, right? We have each other and that's the most important thing."
(Melissa Lyttle/South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
A parked car is surrounded by the ruins of a house north of Port Charlotte, Fla., early Saturday, Aug. 14, 2004, after Hurricane Charley moved through the area Friday.
(AP PHOTO/J.PAT CARTER)
Pearl Johnson (right) gets a hug from neighbor Esther Dutt in front of her home of in southeast Orlando on Saturday. Esther's husband, Kenneth Dutt, stands at left. During Hurricane Charley, a giant oak split with half of the tree landing on the house and the other half landing on the street.
(BOBBY COKER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)
Pat Turner, 76, of Daytona Beach lost everything in her apartment off State Road A1A during Hurricane Charley. She takes a look at the damage on Saturday.
(EILEEN MARIE SIMONEAU/ORLANDO SENTINEL)