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Hurricane Charley hit the Punta Gorda area at the beginning of the school year on August 13, 2004, as a Category 4 hurricane, causing major damage to the school. After seventeen days of hiatus, the students attended Port Charlotte High School during the 12:45 - 6 p.m. afternoon shift [ 11 ] for most of the 2004–2005 school year.
Punta Gorda was the scene of massive destruction after Charley, a Category 4 hurricane, came through the city on August 13, 2004. Charley was the strongest tropical system to hit Florida since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and the first hurricane since Hurricane Donna in 1960 to make a direct hit on Florida's southwest coast. [ 8 ]
Hurricane Charley was the first of four separate hurricanes to impact or strike Florida during 2004, ... In Punta Gorda's airport, where the hurricane made landfall ...
.The sign to the Shell Factory on Highway 41 leading into Punta Gorda shows a little damage from Hurricane Charley after it made landfall Aug. 13, 2004. ... Boulevard after it was stranded out of ...
Most agreed that 18 years had barely been enough to recover from Hurricane Charley's impact in 2004. Charley's destructive landfall was a combination of its rapidly acquired strength to a Category.
As Hurricane Ian bears down on Florida, Punta Gorda residents and workers hope this won't be a repeat of 2004's Hurricane Charley.
August 13 – Hurricane Charley struck southwestern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest landfall in the continental United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Its eye crossed Cayo Costa and later the mainland at Punta Gorda, before crossing the state with much of its intensity retained. A wind gust of 173 mph (278 km/h) was ...
The path runs on the north side of Laishley Park along the river, passing by the "Spirit of Punta Gorda" monument, a sundial commemorating the landfall of Hurricane Charley in 2004. The path weaves its way around the Laishley Park Marina before making its way back to the river bank.