Hurricane Charley - WTVJ - 2004-08-13
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[0:57] Hurricane Charley, a category-4 storm,
[1:00] winds of 145 mph, makes an unexpected
[1:04] turn and storms ashore in Port
[1:05] Charlotte. Watch this video.
[1:08] Shingles ripping off roofs.
[1:11] And look at this, a plane on the tarmac
[1:12] at the Charlotte County Airport,
[1:14] buffeted by the category-4 winds. And
[1:16] then this, look at this truck parked,
[1:18] but literally blown around like a toy.
[1:20] Now to another piece of tape, the storm
[1:22] rips a roof right off a post office in
[1:25] Fort Myers and throws it into the water.
[1:27] And some more amazing pictures, a stop
[1:29] sign bent, and a fire station hit hard
[1:32] by the storm. Watch as the winds
[1:34] actually try and rip the door off. Holes
[1:37] in the roof, wires down, more debris
[1:40] everywhere.
[1:41] And then, 20 miles inland in the town of
[1:44] Arcadia, a wall collapses at a civic
[1:46] center serving as a shelter for 1,200
[1:49] people. Amazingly, only one person was
[1:51] injured. Listen to this, one witness
[1:53] said the wall started peeling back, and
[1:55] quote, "It lifted an