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[Meier]

In all seriousness, it could have been a lot worse but one of our old trees lost a good portion of it and clipped the back corner of our roof. My mom's 30-year old staghorn fern was crushed as well which was quite upsetting to her (not to mention worth a few thousand bucks) as well.. but I got some crazy pictures the day after.

The winds hit 105 mph in downtown Orlando and unfortunately I'm about 2 miles from there. I have about 150 photos -- would have taken more but my battery died and I had no way to charge it as my house still has no power and likely wont for upwards of a week. Fortunately I'm back up at school now so I can post them!

This is our backyard after the storm. My mom and dad were just as distraught over the tree being damaged as our roof.

This guy got so lucky.. not a SCRATCH on his car

This person didnt fair so well.. makings of an OWNED pic to be sure.

Our neighbor's house. Pine tree split the roof perfectly.

Ouch.

I have no clue how the entire tree got up there.

Charley was playing basketball I guess?

I have tons more photos that I'll probably upload later.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

thats fuckin insane. Why did they call it Charley instead of Charlie?

 

[B'z-chan]

I would love to see all the pictures. I can understand peoples fustration with such things as Mother Nature. Thank god i live in Fresno California away from everything thats horrible but the Heat and Fog.

 

[AlphaSnake]

That lousy porn star slut...

I mean, damn that's fucked up. More pics!

 

[Meier]

Crazy how the grass stayed together

My best friend since middle school's sidewalk

His neighbor's house... in Daytona at the time of the storm. Tough sight to come home to.

Huge oak completely blocking a residential road

Two large oaks down, one across the power lines

Taken about 30 minutes before the eye was just about over our house.. very windy

Neighbor's pecan tree, completely uprooted

This house is in the opposite side of my neighborhood.. almost completely debri/damage-free. Lucky bastard.

This house is directly across the street from him.

All the debri in our front lawn. Was taken around 6:25 AM or so, so it is fairly dark still.

 

[Orin GA]

I bet that person wished they had parked the car in their garage...

 

[AniHawk]

Wow.

Glad we only get earthquakes instead of hurricanes.

 

[Mejilan]

Wow, that's so awesome. And by awesome, I don't mean cool or good, I mean the sheer power of nature and the unmitigated havoc it can wreak at a whim is truly something to be contemplated. Good luck with the clean up, recovery, and repairs, and thank you for the pictures. It's humbling.

 

[Desperado]

This house is in the opposite side of my neighborhood.. almost completely debri/damage-free. Lucky bastard.

Lesson=don't have so many fucking trees in your yard.

 

[Memles]

Yeah...reminds me of Hurricane Juan of last fall up here in Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada). Granted, it was about 2/3 as powerful, and the damage wasn't quite as extensive (Less trees through houses) but seeing shots of the amount of roads covered, sidewalks ripped up like that...it's simply awe-inspiring...but shitty awe, you know?

Definitely sucks about the fern, though. I don't know what it is, but it sounds old, valuable both money-wise and sentimentally, and that's the kind of shit Hurricanes shouldn't touch. Nature>Houses, Charley. When will you learn?

 

[Thaedolus]

Good time to be a contractor in Florida?

 

[Scalemail Ted]

Good time to be a contractor in Florida?

Bad time to be an insurance company in Florida?

 

[Meier]

Good time to be a contractor in Florida?

haha, yeah. I joke about how the tree trimmers were going around like ambulance chasers. We got one later that day and paid them $300 for work and two of our neighbors gave them $400 a piece as well.

 

[tt_deeb]

Very interesting pictures, thanks for sharing.

 

[Blackcherry]

Heh, and you still alive?

 

[StrikerObi]

When I was driving up to school on I-75 I must have seen about seven or eight convoys of nothing but cherry-pickers (those trucks with the bucket on them that the phone company uses), each convoy of like 10 to 15 trucks. All going to help with repairs and stuff down south.

I saw a bunch of general construction equipment too.

 

[Makura]

What do you live in a tropical rainforest? There are so many trees...

 

[Mejilan]

Not that many trees here in NY, and g-d do I miss them. That said, I live right outside Prospect Park, and that's STILL not enough compared to where I used to live once upon an age.

 

[Meier]

There are so many trees...

Welcome to Florida.

 

[Gibbo]

Makes me glad there are no natural disasters where I'm living. Feel sorry for all those people who lost their homes

 

[Tabs]

Glad to hear you're all right Meier. I live over on the East side by UCF, and we're still without power. Some-fucking-how, my work has power (where I'm sitting now), but it's out all over the place around it. I bought a house in a brand new neighborhood two years ago, so we don't have trees big enough to do any damage, but I will have to do some replanting and rebuild my fence.

Being without power for days sucks so bad I want to cry. We're bored, frustrated, pissed off, and our dogs are hot and unsettled. And we're some of the luckier ones

 

[Future Trunks]

WOO!

+1 for being in Houston during Charley.

Weather was AWESOME, and we owe it all to Central Florida being pummeled by a hurricane! j/k We were driving back on 75 at night at around 3 am Sunday morning, so I didn't get to see much of anything. Trav, I feel bad for you and the power situation. My lady friend is without power still and she's at work at UCF right now. LOL Supposedly the lights are out at University and Alafaya and all kinds of other stuff. One side of University has power, the other doesn't, NO GAS, etc....

+1 for living in Tampa temporarily until I move for good to Houston so I would have been virtually unscathed anyway.

Man, it's not funny, but I laughed at all those people who left Pinellas/Hillsborough county for Daytona Beach/Orlando hotel accomodations. Going from being on the edge of a hurricane to being in the path of the eye. That's some ownage.

 

[Tabs]

Yeah, the UCF side of Alafaya is destroyed and the other side is fine. We ate at the McDonald's right across from UCF this afternoon. The storm took a wicked turn Friday morning after everyone in Tampa had already panicked. Came right at us. At least if you moved inward, you're avoiding the storm surge and floods.

 

[pixelated]

Sigh, Houston is due. the biggest badest mofo is gonna hit us someday

 

[Meier]

I bought a house in a brand new neighborhood two years ago, so we don't have trees big enough to do any damage, but I will have to do some replanting and rebuild my fence.

One of my older brothers lives in some fairly new apartments out near the airport (about 10 mins from it) and literally EVERY tree had been uprooted and had tipped over because they had no root structure. They were only a few feet tall so they couldnt have done any damage or anything, but it was really funny driving down this road and seeing all the trees in the local shopping center tipped over.

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

I heard they paid Floyd $20 million for a followup to his 1992 smash hit.

 

[Eminem]

Just awesome(see Mejilan's explanation of awesome) pictures. Thanks for posting 'em.

 

[Celicar]

Woah. I wasn't thinking the hurricane was going to do much damage, but those pics are pretty cool.

My girlfriend's mom lives in Sanford, about ten minutes from UCF and she's still without power too. She has a home business so she can't work either.

I was out in Destin back when tropical storm Bonnie hit, and all that did was bring rain, so that's why I didn't think Charley was going to do much, being such a low grade hurricane.

At least you have insurance.

 

[J2 Cool]

eww, you should really clean out your pool. How do you swim in that? You'll catch leaves in your trunks.. No, in all seriousness, those are some insane pictures. Worst I've seen being in Chicago suburbs was a tornado but never serious ones. One tree ripped from the roots that fell on this guy's porch/living room was the peak of the disaster. Seems like if you didnt catch a tree on your house your the lucky one there.

 

[Meier]

I didn't think Charley was going to do much, being such a low grade hurricane.

At least you have insurance.

Erm, it was a category 4 hurricane when it hit land (winds in the air topped out at 162 mph) -- almost on par with Andrew. It was category 2 (roughly 105 mph) when it hit us though which is still pretty incredible considering the distance it had traveled already.

One thing that sucks though, homeowner's insurance apparently doesnt include tree removal my mom told me tonight. Fortunately it wasnt too bad for us, but some of those people are gonna get murdered on that.

 

[MrPing1000]

uk is getting the tail end of Charley now. Cornwall got flooded and today its raining really heavily in Northern Ireland. A walk in the park compared to a hurricane i guess

 

[gofreak]

uk is getting the tail end of Charley now. Cornwall got flooded and today its raining really heavily in Northern Ireland. A walk in the park compared to a hurricane i guess

I thought it was the tail-end of bonny? unless charley overtook it in the atlantic..

Even at that, the forecast I saw this morning said the remnants of bonny would hit the uk/ireland later today. Not sure what the cornwall floods came out of (unless that was charley like you said, but that seems unbelievable that it'd come back across the atlantic so soon).

 

[MrPing1000]

I thought it was the tail-end of bonny? unless charley overtook it in the atlantic..

Even at that, the forecast I saw this morning said the remnants of bonny would hit the uk/ireland later today. Not sure what the cornwall floods came out of (unless that was charley like you said, but that seems unbelievable that it'd come back across the atlantic so soon).

I heard it mentioned on tv so it may not be correct, im no meteorologist

 

[SaitoH]

Looks like the damage Hurrican Juan did to Halifax last summer. Not fun.

 

[shibbs]

Holy shit dude, what a carnage. So glad we dont have any of that shit here.