Disaster Aid Flows to Victims of Charley
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - Federal disaster assistance money started flowing to Hurricane Charley's victims and postal workers handed out mail Tuesday outside their damaged building, but hundreds of thousands still had no phones, no running water, no diapers for the baby and no gas to fill the tank...
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I couldn&#39;t believe the news as I watched the recent destruction caused by Hurricane Charley. Thousands of homes and businesses were devastated in Florida&#39;s Charlotte County.
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Several local emergency response and disaster relief workers and volunteers are helping with Hurricane Charley relief efforts in Florida, with more expected to assist in the coming weeks.
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WASHINGTON : The line of people filing new claims for jobless benefits grew last week, hurt by damage to businesses caused by Hurricane Charley, a US government report showed.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - Urban rescue teams, insurance adjusters and National Guard troops were scattered across Florida to help residents rally from the brunt of Hurricane Charley, the worst storm to hit the state in a dozen years...
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President Bush asked his supporters Saturday to pray for Hurricane Charley victims and announced that he will visit Florida to survey the damage.
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President Bush signed disaster aid to help hurricane victims in Florida and other states rebuild from hurricanes Charley, Frances, Jeanne and Ivan.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - The death toll from Hurricane  Charley's destructive rampage in Florida has risen to 20, and  more than 439,000 remain without power in the state, government  officials said on Wednesday.
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SARASOTA, Fla. - The devastation brought on by Hurricane Charley has been especially painful for an elderly population that is among the largest in the nation...
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - The death toll from Hurricane  Charley climbed to 16 on Sunday as thousands left homeless in  southwest Florida sorted through wreckage and President Bush  rushed in to view the devastation.
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NEW YORK, Aug 18  - Insurance payments to victims of Hurricane Charley are expected to reach $7.4 billion, making it the second most costly hurricane to hit the United States, an insurance industry group said on Wednesday.
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SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla.  - Five days after Hurricane  Charley hammered southwest Florida, hundreds of residents  streamed back to the barrier islands on Wednesday as  authorities opened causeways for the first time to allow access  to homes left largely intact by the storm's ferocious winds.
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Still smarting over the loss of their homes, Hurricane Charley's victims turned out by the hundreds in 90-degree heat Tuesday to cope with the storm's latest blow to their lives &#151; the mass shutdown of businesses that has left them without jobs.
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Cubans hit hard by hurricane Charley will receive &#36;50,000 in U.S. assistance, the State Department said Friday.
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People in Polk and other counties declared disaster areas because of Hurricane Charley are getting federal and state help faster than any other emergency in history.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - National Guard troops in  Humvees patrolled devastated southwest Florida to prevent  looting on Saturday as rescuers searched for victims of  Hurricane Charley which killed at least 13 people, shredded  mobile homes and damaged thousands of buildings.
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State officials say the statewide slowdown caused by Hurricane Charley, with estimated losses of $20 billion, will probably last no more than a month or two.