Some pictures of what we almost looked like:
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Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (right) joins other officials in the Governor's Briefing Room at the Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee, Florida Friday, August 13, 2004 as Class 4 Hurricane Charley is minutes away from hitting the shores of southwest Florida.
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An emergency official examines the interior of the Turner Center in Arcadia Friday afternoon after it partially collapsed from damage cause by Hurricane Charley. The center was being used as a hurricane shelter.
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Steve Brooks looks out the window from what's left of his mobile home at the Biehl Slip-Not mobile home park in Punta Gorda on Friday after Hurricane Charley passed by destroying most of the park.
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A fallen house looking west onto the Gulf of Mexico lies damaged by Hurricane Charley after the storm passed through Fort Myers Beach on Friday.
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Cheryl Prather, of Fort Myers Beach, holds her cat, Lestat, and watches as a home next to hers burns down after Hurricane Charley passed through the area on Friday.
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A renter bows his head as a fire from a home next door approaches his apartment after Hurricane Charley passed through Fort Myers Beach on Friday afternoon. He evacuated his belongings along with four other people. Witnesses said they heard explosions inside but were unsure what caused the fire.
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A massive storm surge washes across the grounds of the Diamond Head Resort on Fort Myers Beach, the waves crashing into an outdoor bar
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Debris from a rooftop, downed power lines and upended street signs litter Estero Boulevard on Fort Myers Beach after Hurricane Charley waded ashore Friday, packing 145 mph winds.
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Smaller airplanes at the Charlotte County Airport were left heavily damaged Friday by high winds from Hurricane Charley
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Visitors at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista crowd Main Street USA to exit the park after it was announced that it was closing due to Hurricane Charley on Friday.
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The roof of a garage is blown off onto Charlotte County Sheriff's cruisers from winds of Hurricane Charley Friday in the parking lot of the Charlotte County Airport.
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Traffic on northbound I-275 in Tampa moves slowly Thursday as coastal residents and visitors flee the path of Hurricane Charley.
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A waterspout drops from the clouds over the Gulf of Mexico prior to Hurricane Charley reaching land near Sanibel Island in Fort Myers on Thursday.
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Tropical Storm Charley, lower right, over the Caribbean Sea, and Tropical Storm Bonnie, upper left, over the Gulf of Mexico, are shown in this NOAA satellite image taken at 7:45 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 11.
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An elderly man walks by a destroyed mobile home in the Harborview Park Saturday morning in Port Charlotte, Fla.
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Mickey Pariseau pulls a friend's belongings out of the Windmill Village mobile home trailer park on Saturday in Punta Gorda, one day after Hurricane Charley passed through the area.
Many were not as lucky as us!!!!!
Cudaman