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How well I remember Hurricane Charley (and Frances and Jeanne which followed close on it's heels). We lived in SW Orlando near Universal studios and Disney World. The wind damage was inconceivable. Not only a multitude of damaged roofs, but also huge stacks of tree and landscape debris piled curbside as far as the eye could see. It took weeks to get it removed.

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It was absolute tree carnage in Winter Park and south Seminole. Live oaks that hadn't been wind-tested since Donna coming down left and right. My house was relatively fortunate, but I had family who were out of power for more than two weeks.

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Charlie. We were in our house a mile from the Gulf in Manatee for one year. I was GM of Siesta Key Utilities watching the track going right over us, remembering a talk by the Fire Chief of Sullivan Island. SC, about Hugo. Charlie turned, and we got almost nothing except for a few days of power outages. Bought a bigger generator and Miami rated hurricane shutters for all the openings right after that.

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The same/infamous narrow angle of approach problem that came back to bite again in Ian.

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Thank you for watching for us! Takes a bit of the stress away making some near future plans :-)

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You can make those near-future plans with confidence. Still looks rough ahead for the season as a whole, which I'll get into in more depth later this week.

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I was living in Venice during Charley and we were mandatorily evacuated. We went to...Orlando. Specifically Winter Park. Pretty sure the eyewall went over us. After an excruciating 15+ hour drive back to Venice we returned to find the power hadn't even blinked at the house.

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