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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (42968)	8/14/2004 9:04:07 AM
From: redfish	Respond to of 81568

I'm glad your mom was away, it looks like the toll of this storm is pretty horrific: "PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) - The death toll from Hurricane Charley rose early Saturday, when a county official said there had a been "significant loss of life" at a mobile home park and deputies were standing guard over stacks of bodies because the area was inaccessible to ambulances. Wayne Sallade, Charlotte County's director of emergency management, said early Saturday that there were "a number of fatalities" at the mobile home park, and that there were confirmed deaths in at least three other areas in the county. The eye of the worst hurricane to hit Florida in a dozen years passed directly over Punta Gorda, a town of 15,000 which took a devastating hit Friday. Hundreds of people were missing in Charlotte and thousands were left homeless, Sallade said. He compared the devastation with 1992's Hurricane Andrew, which the National Hurricane Center directly blamed for the deaths of 26 people, most in South Florida." apnews.myway.com I certainly learned a lesson from it, the shelter isn't a bad place to be during a storm. You may be surrounded by trailer park and homeless people, but they give you a free lunch and dinner.