Charley Leaves 31,000 Destroyed Or Uninhabitable Homes

[0rion]

By Michael Edward
8-24-4


According to the latest statistics, Hurricane Charley caused an estimated $7.4 BILLION damage... so far.

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.

Charley Leaves 31,000 Destroyed Or Uninhabitable Homes

[LiberalBushFan]

1. And how much aid did Bush provide?

was it 2 million? $100 per house is plenty.

[LunaC]

2. "Yet only 12 people died from the direct impact of a 175+ mph 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?

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?

I've avoided commenting on the "bodies are being stacked in refrigerated trucks" threads because they were mostly friend-of-a-friend accounts but I can't argue the logic presented in this article and hafta' wonder if there isn't another sleight-of-hand numbers game going on in Florida surrounding the body count......

.....especially since I still haven't been able to make contact with a friend who had been living in a trailer in Gainesville. Can anyone out there tell me how hard Gainesville was hit and if I should continue to have cause for concern?