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JanMichael

(24,881 posts) Thu Sep 29, 2022, 08:04 PM Sep 2022

What about Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte?

I can find very little online about them. It is most Ft Myers and Lee County which obviously got smashed by Ian but ..

The eye went right between, or really close to between, Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte right up Charlotte Harbor. Wasn't Jim Cantori there?

Charlotte County is almost 200k people but the news is scarce.

We don't pay for cable news. Has much been said about them? Anything?

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What about Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte? (Original Post) JanMichael Sep 2022 OP

There was a lot of damage in Port Charlotte viva la Sep 2022 #1

Hurricane Josh sabbat hunter Sep 2022 #2

Thanks. First decent thing I've heard so far. JanMichael Sep 2022 #3

viva la

(3,284 posts)

1. There was a lot of damage in Port Charlotte

Reply to JanMichael (Original post)

Thu Sep 29, 2022, 08:09 PM

Sep 2022

I haven't heard about casualties.

But I heard the harbor was basically sucked dry, then all the water came up on the waterfront. The hospital was damaged and a lot of stores too. Many houses battered and flooded, but it sounds like it wasn't as bad as in Ft. Myers.

sabbat hunter

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2. Hurricane Josh

Reply to JanMichael (Original post)

Thu Sep 29, 2022, 08:17 PM

Sep 2022

was down in Punta Gorda, he says they escaped the worst of the tidal surge. Check him out on twitter, he posts great stuff, without any hype.
google icyclone.

JanMichael

(24,881 posts)

3. Thanks. First decent thing I've heard so far.

Reply to sabbat hunter (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 29, 2022, 08:20 PM

Sep 2022

Not that 10 ft tidal surge is a good thing but at least it isnt 16 ft

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