Welcome to Hurricane season.
Click on the link here for Audio Player – WDBO, Orlando Florida Continuous coverage – August 13, 2004 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection
If you lived in Orlando Florida on this day ten years ago you’d be nervous.
An animation of Hurricane Charley making landfall on the west coast of Florida on August 13, 2004. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The second major hurricane of the season, Hurricane Charley was bearing down on Orlando Florida with up to 160 mile an hour winds, making it the first Category 4 Hurricane of the season.
Two million people evacuated the area, but in the end 10 were reported dead with over $13 Billion in damage, making it (as of 2004) the second costliest Hurricane in U.S. history.
While the events were unfolding, here is an excerpt as it happened from continuous coverage of the arrival of Hurricane Charley from WDBO in Orlando Florida.
There was a lot going on in other places that day, but Hurricane season was getting hot and heavy for this August 13th in 2004, and much of America was paying attention to that.
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