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Electrical system inhibits fast fixes
Sentinel Staff WriterWhen Louell Miner got home from work Monday, she cleaned up melted freezer pops, soppy vegetables and rotten meat from her freezer. Her house in South Orlando was about 85 degrees, laundry was piling high and she was eating meals from Subway and Golden...Tags: Electricity Production and Distribution, Hurricane Charley (2004), Florida, Companies and Corporations, Hospitals and Clinics
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1.5 million without power in area
Sentinel Staff WriterMore than 1.5 million Central Florida residents went to bed Saturday night without electricity to cool their homes, warm their showers or refrigerate their food. And as much as a week may pass before the last of them can turn the lights back on in the...Tags: University of Central Florida, Thornton Park, Hurricanes, Hospitals and Clinics, College Park (Orlando, Florida)
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Charley rolls across Central Florida
Sentinel Staff WritersHurricane Charley battered Central Florida tonight, packing 105 mph winds that tore off roofs, knocked down trees and left tens of thousands of residents without power. There were widespread reports of trees falling on homes and storm-related fires, as...Tags: Thornton Park, Hospitals and Clinics, Disasters, Politics, Jeb Bush
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Hurricane Charley news Web log
From Staff and Wire ReportsThe Web log is no longer being updated, but read through our coverage from the last page forward of Hurricane Charley's rampage through Central Florida. Sat. Aug. 14, 4:23 p.m. Heavy rain caused the roofs to collapse on several condemned apartments near...Tags: Walt Disney World Resort, Florida Power & Light, Television Industry, Transportation, The Seminole Tribe
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Charley rips across Florida
Sentinel Staff WritersHurricane Charley bullied its way up Florida's midsection Friday, flipping small airplanes, tearing off roofs, knocking down trees and flooding roads as it headed from coastal Charlotte County through Orlando and Daytona Beach. At least three people were...Tags: Hurricanes, Government, Cape Coral (Lee, Florida), Hospitals and Clinics, Disasters
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Charley roars across Central Florida
Sentinel Staff WritersHurricane Charley battered Central Florida on Friday night, packing 105-mph winds that tore off roofs, snapped trees like twigs and left hundreds of thousands of residents without power. And as the cleanup began, there were fears that electricity outages...Tags: Thornton Park, Orlando Restaurants, Lake County (Florida), Hurricanes, Transportation
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Global warming not a likely culprit in Charley's destructiveness
Sentinel Staff WriterCentral Floridians sitting in dark, hot houses trying to watch the Olympics on 4-inch, battery-powered televisions can't even take solace that they're helping to prevent the next devastating hurricane. In other words, global warming -- caused in part...Tags: Bright House Networks, Internal Revenue Service, Hurricanes, Global Warming, Petroleum Industry
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Recovery divides those with power, those without
Sentinel Staff WritersThe night her lights came back on, Darla Smith returned from a walk past the homes without electricity in her storm-ravaged Orlando neighborhood and was appalled to see her brightly lighted chandelier shining through the foyer window. "I thought, 'Now...Tags: Hurricanes, Apopka, Business, Meteorological Disasters, Disasters
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Crews slowly light up Central Florida
Sentinel Staff WriterAbout two-thirds of Central Florida electric customers thrown into the dark by Hurricane Charley were back on line Tuesday as utility officials announced they had completed key repairs to a majority of their main power lines. That milestone cleared the...Tags: Hurricanes, Apopka, Business, Rich Crotty, Longwood (Seminole, Florida)
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Hurricane Frances minute-by-minute
Sentinel staff and wire reportsRead from the last page forward to see developments in chronological order. 11:23 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004 Joseph and Mary Dlubac celebrated 66 years of marriage Sunday at Palm Terrace Elementary School, being used as special needs shelter in...Tags: Lake Surfing, Florida Power & Light, Television Industry, Business, Rich Crotty
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Millions see familiar sight: Darkness
Sentinel Staff WritersHurricane Frances cut electricity to an estimated 5 million people -- a quarter of them in Central Florida -- as it slogged across the state Sunday. Although lacking the sustained high winds of Hurricane Charley last month, Frances still plunged more...Tags: Lake County (Florida), Hurricanes, Business, Lake County (Ohio), College Park (Orlando, Florida)
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Damage, flooding widespread
Sentinel Staff WriterJohn Ellis tried to salvage what he could Monday from the home in which he had lived for 60 years until Hurricane Frances came calling. Ellis pointed to the southeast corner of the house, where a bedroom once stood. "The windows blew out, and then it was...Tags: Hurricanes, New Smyrna Beach, Daytona Beach, Metal and Mineral, Disasters and Accidents
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