Hurricane Charley hits Florida coast
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The coast of Florida is taking a beating from Hurricane Frances which struck during the night with winds of up to 100mph. The holiday resort of Palm Beach was the first to be hit and the storm is now moving
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - Hurricane Charley claimed a  19th victim in Florida, where more than a half million people  remained without power on Tuesday and officials said damage to  crops would run to hundreds of millions of dollars.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - Neighborhoods leveled by  ferocious winds began humming with chain saws on Sunday in the  southwestern Florida city that took the worst beating from  savage Hurricane Charley.
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Nearly a half-million people were ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Frances swirled toward Florida on Wednesday just weeks after Charley's devastating visit, threatening to deliver the most powerful one-two punch to hit a state in at least a century.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - Urban rescue teams, insurance adjusters and National Guard troops scattered across Florida Monday to help victims of Hurricane Charley and deliver water and other supplies to thousands of people left homeless...
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WASHINGTON - As Hurricane Charley bore down on Florida this month, the principal radar covering the landfall area went down due to mechanical failure - and wasn't restored until 14 hours before the storm smashed into the state, according to documents and officials.    While backup radars still would have tracked the hurricane as it made landfall in the Punta Gorda area Aug...
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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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Hurricane Jeanne ripped into the east coast of Florida early on Sunday morning, marking the first time four hurricanes have hit the state in a single year since record-keeping began in 1851.
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Insurers are counting the cost of Hurricane Charley in Florida, with early damage estimates reaching as high as $14bn (Â£7.6; 11bn euros).
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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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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - Relief supplies poured  rapidly into southwest Florida after Hurricane Charley's  devastating punch but some of the thousands of newly homeless  on Monday were frustrated as they faced rebuilding their lives.
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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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STUART, Fla. - With homes still swaddled in blue tarp and the deaths from Hurricane Charley still fresh in their minds, Florida residents lined up before dawn Thursday for supplies or made evacuation plans as they braced for an onslaught that could be worse than Charley's...
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Torrential rain and ferocious winds have battered Florida once more, as the fourth hurricane in six weeks pounded the US state. Hurricane Jeanne slammed into the state with gusts of 115 mph (185 km/h), ripping
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - The death toll from Hurricane Charley&#39;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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STUART, Fla. - Hurricane Jeanne blasted ashore in Florida with drenching rains and 120 mph wind, tearing off rooftops, hurling debris through the air and sending huge waves crashing into buildings before weakening as it sliced across the central part of the state...
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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.