- According to the latest statistics, Hurricane Charley
caused an estimated $7.4 BILLION damage... so far.
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- Today, the American Red Cross has estimated that 12,019
homes were destroyed. This does not include 19,095 homes that have major
damage and are uninhabitable in their present state of repair. 32,755 homes
have minor damage and can be lived in while repairs are made, and 20,218
have damage such as missing shingles. At least 5,661 homes were still inaccessible
as of their report and it was unknown what damage they may have.
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- How nice it is of the County Tax Collectors to "delay"
tax assessments that were just mailed out or are about to be mailed. For
some people, they will sooner or later be required to pay taxes on property
that they no longer have. Governor Jeb Bush made it a point to let the
victims of Charley know that they won't have to pay their property tax
assessments... until later on.
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- With 12 thousand homes already confirmed as destroyed,
and perhaps another 8 thousand uninsured homes that are uninhabitable and
will not be repaired, the developers are going to have a field day buying
up the former 30 or so mobile home parks that have been wiped out in Charlotte
County alone. In fact, real estate speculators are already posting signs
in devastated areas stating "cash for your lot". Many people
are taking their low-ball offers and selling out. Prior to Charley's arrival,
prices for vacant lots were sky high, but not any longer.
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- Let's just take a common sense look at things for a moment.
Here we have all these many thousands of destroyed homes, plus thousands
of uninhabitable homes that are damaged so much that they are unsafe. Yet
we're being told that there are only 25 deaths from Hurricane Charley...
and about half of these were related to post-hurricane accidents and medical
condition deaths.
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- Here we have 12,000 totally destroyed homes... flattened
and demolished, and not distinguishable as anything other than a trash
pile. There were no advanced mandatory evacuations for inland areas until
it was too late. Nearly all those in Charley's path were either huddled
in bathrooms or in other safe places in our homes. The power of Charley's
winds were like being hit by a locomotive train, which is far worse than
being slammed by an 18 wheel tractor trailer. Imagine a train smashing
through your house because that's just what happened to more than 12,000
houses and mobile homes. If you were inside your mobile home or house,
what are the odds that you could have survived such a destructive power
and force?
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- Yet we are being told that roughly 12 people died from
the direct impact of Hurricane Charley, a 175+ mph locomotive fury. That's
merely 1 fatality for every 1,000 TOTALLY destroyed homes. Where did all
those people huddled in the 12,000 or so bathrooms go to? Did they somehow
get beamed up by Captain Kirk to safety? Did Charley descriminantly avoid
all bathrooms where people were hiding and praying?
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- OK, let's be extremely conservative and say, for illustration
only, that half of those completely destroyed homes were vacant. Now we're
hypothetically looking at just 6,000 totally destroyed homes with just
one person inside when Charley hit with little to no warning. And remember,
most of the destroyed homes were flimsy mobile homes, the vast majority
of which were older models that did not meet current hurricane safety standards.
Are we to believe that there was just one fatality for every 500 demolished
homes? And this is a hypothetical "half" figure I'm using here!
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- People in most of Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte, and the
surrounding areas did NOT evacuate. The odds are, most people were in their
homes when we got hit. The odds also say that escaping the deadly force
of Charley, as evidenced by the destruction left in its aftermath, were
slim to none for at least 12,000 homeowners.
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- By all common sense, and just using the Red Cross statistics
released today, it is surely no exageration to say that the death toll
from Hurricane Charley may reach into thousands.
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- Now you can see how absurd the "official" death
toll is. Add to this the bodies that were seen by so many residents in
the late afternoon and early evening hours of Friday, August 13, and it's
not possible that there were only 12 or so hurricane directly related deaths.
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- Americans and the world... WAKE UP and demand that you
be told the truth. Call every Florida radio and TV station and tell them
to stop lying. Demand that they report the truth.
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- We refuse to leave any victim behind.
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- Michael Edward
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- http://worldvisionportal.org/wvpforum/viewtopic.php?p=431#431
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