More Hurricane Charley coverage

Danielle Colon, 10, on Tuesday holds up a fan for her grandmother Ana Colon, 53. After the power came back on for Ivan Asmat and his family across the street in the Monterey neighborhood, they ran a cord to Colon's home. The Colons have just enough power to run their refrigerator, TV and a fan.

Georgianna Palm, 11, and Jessica Loperena, 13, tend to a baby squirrel they found during cleanup on Arapaho Trail in Maitland. The girls named him after the hurricane, which came at the height of the birth season for squirrels.

Without electricity and air conditioning after Hurricane Charley, parishoners pray at the Community United Methodist Church in DeBary on Sunday morning. A large tree fell on the church's Cecil Ogg education building.

Orlando Police officer Dave Vernon steps out of an East Colonial Drive business that had its front window blown out by Hurricane Charley.

Power poles lean slightly to the right along State Road 60, heading west from Lake Wales. The sunset colors the western sky with a range of brilliant hues.

Assessing Charlie Frank Cascio stands in the street after assessing the damage to his home from Hurricane Charley, in Port Charlotte.

Vehicles heading back to the Gulf Coast clog Interstate 4 on Saturday. One man returning to Treasure Island spent more than six hours on the road.

At First Baptist of Pine Castle on Sunday, Walter Carriker of Etowah, N.C., stirs food for those affected by the hurricane.

Eli Gonzalez, an electrician for Braswell Electric Inc., Lake Mary, restores electric service cut by Hurricane Charley to a mobile home on Belvedere Road in Bithlo.

An trailer flipped in this front yard in Punta Gorda when Hurricane Charley swept through a day earlier.

Navy reservists Rachael Gonzales (left) and John Caselli rinse cars Sunday at the Auto Zone on Colonial Drive in Orlando to raise money for storm victims. Some drivers gave more than the $5 donation.

Curt Graulich of The Carpet Company No.3 lays down padding in a bedroom inside of Mission Apartments. The company has a backlog of work but is giving priority to its more than 100 apartment accounts. Extra workers have been added.

Jack McAllister is comforted by neighbors, Shirley Rangeloff (center) and Jacqui Krouze (background) in their Windmill Village neighborhood of Punta Gorda.

John Merrick looks for a tool in what is left of this work area, after Hurricane Charley blew off most of the roof of his home on Beeney Road in Port Charlotte.

A community near Punta Gorda lies in splinters after Hurricane Charley.

In Port Charlotte Dale Wright and his wife, Roni, hug after surviving Hurricane Charley, in Port Charlotte, Fla., after the second floor of their townhouse blew off with them inside during the storm.

Michael Grasso, a property appraiser with Orange County, surveys the damage done by a tree at a home on Heron Trail in Maitland.

Mickey Pariseau pulls a friend's belongings out of the Windmill Village mobile home trailer park Saturday, Aug. 14, 2004, in Punta Gorda, Fla., one day after Hurricanes Charley passed through the area. Charley caused widespread damage to coastal areas and mobile home parks and knocked out power to an estimated 1.3 million homes and businesses as it crossed from southwest Florida to the Atlantic Coast at Daytona Beach.

Members of the Peace River Church of Christ sing during their 1st service since Hurricane Charley. The church's roof was blown off during the storm, so members met beneath a makeshift tent in the church parking lot Sunday.

Marilyn Bean fights back tears and emotion upon seeing her home for the first time after Hurricane Charley swept through the Windmill Village mobile home park in Punta Gorda.

Cindra Brooks (left) fills gasoline containers Sunday at Costco at Forsyth Road and University Boulevard?© in Winter Park. Brooks filled 3 containers to power generators at her family's Union Park home.

Hurricane Charley caved in the cafeteria roof at Brookshire Elementary. Schools are expected to reopen Aug. 24.

Federal workers stay busy Monday at the Federal Emergency Management Agency?s Disaster Field Office in Orlando. Gov. Jeb Bush toured the office and talked to workers at the facility. FEMA?s statewide emergency response to Hurricane Charley is being managed from the Orlando office.

Workers at the Orange County landfill use a machine that turns yard waste into mulch at the rate of 100 tons per hour. The increase in debris is straining workers.

Nathaniel Williams of the Jacksonville Electric Authority naps Thursday during lunch break in his truck. His crew, which was brought in to help restore power lost because of storm damage, is working in Orlando?s Leu Gardens.

Utility poles lie on the ground Monday along a main power-transmission corridor in Polk County. The complexity of the power system makes restoration anything but simple, officials say.

The roof at the gym of Poinciana High School in Osceola County had major damage from Hurricane Charley. Other schools around Central Florida had losses from Friday night's storm.

Crews from Progress Energy and Georgia Power restore distribution feeder power lines Monday on Dean Road in east Orange County. Utility crews restored electricity to half of the 1.5 million Central Florida residents who lost power in Hurricane Charley.

Clark Shealy (left) and Joe Young, linemen with Gainesville Regional Utilities, work high atop KUA power poles to help restore electricity that was knocked out by Hurricane Charley.

Jeanie Gillman, a FEMA community-relations officer from West Virginia, climbs through debris Wednesday along 38th Street in Orlando in an effort to reach homeowners and renters affected by Hurricane Charley.

Raul Perez Sr., 52, lost power for only 9 hours ? not long enough even for the ice cream to go soft. His neighbors down the street on Julio Lane Giberto Gonzalez, 81, and his wife Carmen Xiques, 69, have no power.

David J. Migeneault sits in his devastated law office in The Professional Building in downtown Punta Gorda on Saturday. He is clearing it out after Charley ripped through town on Friday packing 145-mph winds.

Richard Miller, Ed McCall and Tim Williams (from left) of All County Window and Door replace a window at Pioneer Graphics, Orlando.

Florence Barker (left) laughs with Renee McCumber at the Hal Marston Northwest Community Center on Friday.

President Bush greets Neil Hardin, right, of the Florida National Guard and Kay Johnston of FEMA at the Charlotte County Emergency Operations Center, during a tour of the Punta Gorda, Sunday.

Eduardo Caro, talks on his radio as he looks for damaged power lines in front of a downed water tower in Arcadia on Monday.

John Morrison pauses in the middle of the yard to take in the amount of damage done to his Punta Gorda street the morning after Hurricane Charley passed over the Southwest coast of Florida.

Anthony DiGaetano of Winfield Construction patches a splintered plank from the roof of a home on Dommerich Drive in Maitland. A 3-ton oak crashed into the home as Hurricane Charley passed through.

Orlando Utilities Commission stacks 45-foot poles Wednesday at Edgewater High School to have them handy for the area.

Salvaging items from his aircraft Jim Morgan, 66, salvages items from his aircraft hangar at the Charlotte County Airport after Hurricane Charley moved through the area Friday, in Punta Gorda, Fla. Morgan and his wife rode out the hurricane in the hangar with their small airplane.

Duane West searches for salvagable items in front of his home in Punta Gorda on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2004, after Hurricane Charley made landfall here Friday. The eye of Charley, the worst hurricane to hit Florida in a dozen years, passed directly over Punta Gorda, a town of 15,000 which took a devastating hit Friday.

Jim Becker runs Orange County's Solid Waste Management Division. He must help dispose of the estimated 2 million cubic yards of debris.

Regina Krouse and her son, David, 6, cheer the restoration of power in their Deltona home at 3:15 p.m. Friday.

As a result of Hurricane Charley, Janet Parker (right) lost the brick wall of her Oak Park subdivision behind her home east of Casselberry as well as her pool screen. Surveying the damage with her are her sister Jeana Houghton (left) and Patrick Houghton.

Dr. John Agwunobi (left) checks on Sarah Walden, 8, and her mother, Karen Walden, on Friday at the shelter in the Hal Marston Northwest Community Center in Orlando.

The charred remains of a power-service truck lie on the road Tuesday after it ran into a tractor-trailer parked on the side of the highway.

Mark Thomas of Lake Conway Woods south of Orlando views tree damage to his home Tuesday. He had it for sale before Charley hit. 'The buyers are still interested in the house, but of course they want me to get it fixed,' he said.

Jules Champaign of Bossier City, La., watches as his load of storm debris is emptied Wednesday. A debris-collection center has been set up in a park across from Sanford Middle School. Chipping equipment should be in operation at the center sometime today.

Larry Robinson (left) and others with the Seminole County Schools Facilities Services repair the ceiling at Tuskawilla Middle School on Tuesday. Water from Charley damaged some rooms and computers.

Janet Parker and her newphew Connor Houghton survey the damage to the screened pool enclosure at her home east of Casselberry. The pool will need to be securedfor safety reasons. Experts advise contacting a liscenced pool contractor.

Chuck Holsinger finds the tie down line put in place to protect his plane at Punta Gorda Regional Airport, in Punta Gorda, after Hurricane Charley moved through the area.

Marine One, carrying President Bush, flies over Punta Gorda, during a tour to survey destruction from Hurricane Charley, Sunday. Bush said federal assistance was being rushed to the area.

A hair salon in the historic district of Punta Gorda had its roof blown off during Hurricane Charley.

Christmas residents Amy and Jimmy Roberts and Jimmy III, 1, unwind Sunday at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Orlando.

Gone with the wind A U-Haul truck sits in a liquor store after being blown across a parking lot by Hurricane Charley in Port Charlotte.

Turning away local residents Belle Glade Police Officer James Dingle turns away local residents of the Belle Glade Marina, in Palm Beach County, that was evacuated because of Hurricane Charley

Levi Vaughn, 82 (left), and wife Shirley, 79, with no power spend time on their porch on Mayfair Circle in Orlando Saturday. They lived in their house for 40 years.

Pearl Johnson looks at a limb from a giant oak Saturday that came through her garage ceiling in her southeast Orlando home durint Hurricane Charley.

Maxine Shinefield (left) and Cynthia Greene, relaxing this week on their deck in Lakeridge, know what Central Floridians are enduring. After the storm in 1992, they were trapped in their town house by fallen trees and didn't have power for 10 days.

Rick Constantino of Daytona Beach checks out Charley damage at the Bell Air Condominium in Daytona Beach.

This 1993 Ford Festiva was smashed by trees downed during Hurrican Charley at the home of Chuck Ellis and Tracy Hickson on Sandspur Road in Maitland.

A homeowner at the Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park in Osceola County takes belongings outside after Hurricane Charley.

Ricardo Leon of Glass America replaces a broken window behind a ?now open' sign at Park Plaza Gardens restaurant on Park Avenue in Winter Park on Friday.

A tree sits on a house on Sedgewick Place in south Orange County on Aug. 19. Charley hit homeowners the hardest.

A shredded palm tree stands among the rubble in Punta Gorda after hurricane Charley passed through the night before.

Postal worker Sue Grillot wears a mask Saturday to fight odor left by the hurricane.

Fallen trees block the roads on George Avenue and North Maitland Avenue in Maitland in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley on Saturday. Damaged trees may be in the thousands, an Orlando parks employee said.

Downed tree branches block the drive-through at a Wachovia Bank in Winter Springs.

Safe inside on Saturday morning, Tracy Hickson calls family while surveying the massive Oak tree that narrowly missed her home on Sandspur Road in Maitland.

Hurricane Charley downed trees on a golf course in Kissimmee in Osceola County.

Lois West salvages a toaster oven from the rubble as Lucien Jones looks through the refrigerator. They live together at Slip Knot Mobile Home Park in Punta Gorda.

No looting Erica Austin removes her pet bird from her home in Punta Gorda where her father has painted a stern warning against looters after Hurricane Charley passed Saturday.

Christopher Smith rides his bike down Marion Avenue early Saturday morning in Punta Gorda.

Caroline Erlewein, 86, fans herself with a makeshift cardboard fan Tuesday as she waits for power to be restored to her home on Montego Lane in the Monterey neighborhood off S.R. 436 in Orlando. ?I don?t think I can make it,? she said of the wait to receive power. ?A block or so over they have electricity. We just feel so forgotten. ... I just want something to think about other than the heat.?

Nicole Rogers of New Orleans looks out of the empty front window of her home in Port Charlotte, as she helps them load belongings left by Hurricane Charley.

Herbert Neilson surveys the damage to a pick-up truck as he goes car shopping at a used car lot on Colonial Drive.

Lorine Guzman (left) and her daughters Georgina Guzman (center) and Julisa Guzman survey the damage to their home Sunday at Horizons Apartments in Kissimmee. Most of the city's residents are still without power.

Transformers line the parking lot of the jai-alai fronton in Fern Park this week. Progress Energy is using the area as a staging site for its recovery operations throughout Central Florida.

Trish Rando and her sons, Michael, 14, (center) and Stephen, 16, used their camping skills to get by. Rando's husband, Clif, was off volunteering.

Bonnie Drakes, a custodian at Hungerford Elementary School, helps prepare the campus for its post-Charley opening next week. Schools will start Monday in Seminole, Volusia, Osceola and Polk counties. Hungerford and other Orange County schools are to open Tuesday.

Sanibel Island resident Mark Ryan returns home Wednesday to survey the damage, including a fallen tree. The island was relatively unscathed.

Jason Park (right) of Selma, N.C., rests Wednesday among fellow crew members with Progress Energy out of Garner, N.C. Out-of-state crews are using the lot at the old Kmart Shopping Center in Fern Park as a staging area.

Audrey Desforge is filled with "dispair and disbelief". She and her husband, Moe, came back to their mobile home in Windmill Village to get personal belongings. They have lived there since 1983.

Scott Rose stands near his mobile home Monday. The exposed area is what?s left of his oldest daughter?s bedroom after the storm passed.

A parked car is surrounded by the ruins of a house north of Port Charlotte, Fla., early Saturday, Aug. 14, 2004, after Hurricane Charley moved through the area Friday.

Roofers work at Orlando International Airport on Thursday as an airplane is readied for flight. All but 8 of 130 gates were functioning.

Overturned An overturned semi-truck on I-75 near Port Charlotte. Three trucks were overturned in the area .

David Oldread (left) tosses a bag of ice to Eric Garcia at the Sports Authority at Colonial Drive and State Road 436 in Orlando on Tuesday. Ice, water and other supplies were given away by radio station 101.1 FM (WJRR) and Darden Restaurants.

In east Orange County. Marissa Marchena (top) and her sister Natalie dry out wet books in Deerwood Elementary School on Wednesday. Roof damage allowed water to gush into the media center.

Lia Piantini sits in Livingston Street in the Colonialtown area of Orlando and makes a telephone call as a huge fallen tree blocks the road Saturday.

Kevin Noonan, director of meter services for Orlando Utilities Commission, stands at the point of an incoming power line where OUC's responsibility ends and a homeowner's obligation begins. Noonan says power can't be restored to a home if it has a damaged electric meter.

A mobile home community in Port Charlotte lies in ruins after Hurricane Charley roared through Central Florida.

Miller McCarthy drives from his home in Windermere to his business in Winter Park on Monday without problems. He said there were fewer cars and that drivers were courteous at the 4-way stops created by malfunctioning lights.

Homeowners near Oviedo tack down a tarp over their exposed roof, left bare by Charley. The storm scoured shingles off the rooftops of dozens of homes near Chiles Middle School.

Dick Brink (left) of College Park chats on Saturday with Sumter utility workers (seated, from left) Michael Sims of South Carolina, Brandon Chambers of Georgia and Michael Strickland of South Carolina. Brink and some neighbors served hamburgers, hot dogs and sweet tea to the workers at his house.

Cory Boyd unloads bags of ice Sunday. Hundreds of people from all across Central Florida lined up starting at 6 a.m., said Jerry Banks, the company's president.

Jack Pender of Pike Electric in North Carolina rests Friday after restoring power at Charlotte Lane in College Park. A 6-man crew has been working for days. ?This is what we do,' said lineman Ray Anderson. ?This is something you like or you don't.'

Pedro Nieves tends to tortillas on his barbecue Thursday near downtown Kissimmee. He might not have power until next week.

Dave Stokes of the Charlotte County Fire Department looks for bodies among the rubble in Windmill Village mobile home in Punta Gorda. Two people were feared dead from the community, but neighbors found them alive and well.

A TG Lee Dairy semi trailer tipped over by Hurricane Charley on east Livingston St in Orlando on Saturday, August 14, 2004.

Jesse Schnurer, 77, and his wife, Eleanore, 75, look at their roofless guest bedroom on Sunday. The couple has lived in the Ridge Manor community in south Lake Wales for 9 years. Polk County was hard hit by Hurricane Charley.

David J. Migneault sits in his law office in The Professional Building in downtown Punta Gorda. He is clearing it out after Hurricane Charley swept through a day earlier.

Ryan Antisdel, a freshman from Bedford, N.H., unpacks at Rollins College?s McKean Hall in Winter Park on Saturday while his grandmother, Nancy Deleff of Spring Hill, helps.

Chain saw in hand, Dale Lacey takes to an oak tree in Lake Wales. Polk residents are asked to leave debris at the curb.

Randy Riker (left) and Stu Middleton survey damage from Hurricane Charley at Whidden's Marina on the southern tip of Boca Grande on Friday. Parts of Southwest Florida were devastated.

Nyree Jackson changes the diaper of son Aryeh at her Mentor Network office in Maitland as Bonnie Bowers talks on the phone. Mom and son shared a workday because Jackson?s regular day-care center was closed in the storm?s wake.

Richard Gazda emerges from flood water after trying to clean out the drains near his home in Naples Fla. after Hurricane Charley moved through the area, Friday, Aug. 13, 2004.

Gov. Jeb Bush, left, and Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher, stand together at Charlotte County Airport, Sunday, in Punta Gorda.

Tourists wait in line before the Magic Kingdom opens Saturday. Walt Disney World has its own power system.

Workers on Wednesday repair SeaWorld Orlando?s sign that can be seen from Interstate 4.

Workers with Lewis Tree Co. work in conjunction with Progress Energy to repair a power pole Sunday on North Alafaya Trail near Colonial Drive. The crew from Lewis Tree Co. came from Massachusetts.

Ray Anderson of Pike Electric in North Carolina connects power lines at a home in the area of Shady Lane Drive and Charlotte Lane in College Park.

A man surveys damage to Punta Gorda, Florida, after the eye of Hurricane Charley made landfall here Saturday, Aug. 14, 2004.

Samuel Griffin Jr., 2, sits with his grandmother Daisy Marshall (left) and Louise Campbell in their home on Bentley Street in Orlando's Parramore neighborhood.

Ashley Bitowf and Debbie Dolan (reflected), both of Daphne, Ala., get ready to leave the Ritz Carlton to work at the Southchase Home Depot on Friday.

Hurricane Charley swallowed most of the Gatorland sign at the Kissimmee attraction. The sortm also badly damaged Leu Gardens in Orlando, parts of which will be closed, possibly for months.

Wayne Root heads into what is left of the hangar Monday at the Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum.

Tina McGuire plays Monopoly with her children (from left) Thomas, 15, Randy, 13, and Christina, 8, at her parents' home in Kissimmee on Thursday. The McGuire's home in Taft was without power.

This Lake Wales grove is 1 of many in the state that suffered damage to trees and unripe fruit.

Joe Spencer waits for ice at Barnett Park on West Colonial Drive in Orlando. By 4:30 p.m., he had been waiting for more than 3 hours.

James Stevenson of OUC (reflected in mirror) talks with Pike Electric workers Keith Barnett (left) and Matthew King while they take a Gatorade break. The crews are restoring power Thursday in the Lancaster Park area of Orlando.

Melissa Fleming of College Park, who has been without power since Friday, folds clothing Sunday at a coin laundry at Canton Street and North Mills Avenue in Orlando.

Power poles blown over by Hurricane Charley lie across Lake Margaret Dr. in southeast Orlando Saturday, August 14, 2004.

In Winter Springs, Rick Thompson of Progress Energy works to restore power for David and Linda Hess (background) on Monday.

Scott Haver of Keller Outdoor recently adds to a stack of tree limbs being moved from Woodsmere Avenue near Lake Knowles as cleanup from Hurricane Charley continues. The task of collecting the tree limbs and other debris will not be quick ? much depends on how many cleanup crews can be assembled and put to work.

Rebecca Kemmerer looks around her boyfriend's son's room as she moves out of the Quails Bluff Apartments in Lake Wales. Friday's hurricane left large chunks of ceiling on the floor.

A long line of cars sits as Joseph McCourt of Bithlo fills his tank Monday at the Race Trac station on Alafaya Trail in east Orange County. Other stations had similar lines and many stations remained closed because their power was still off.

Roy MacLachlan, facilities manager, looks over Tupperware's photo and video building. The destruction on the company's 101 acres suggests Charley may have spawned a tornado that tore through the property.

Volunteers David (left) and Jennifer Berrer and David-Evan, 6, help elderly residents clean up this week at the Jade Isle mobile-home park. Many residents relied on help from neighbors and strangers.

Richard Lewis, an officer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, stocks a cooler with water Monday outside the Haines City Police Department. The station is being used to feed rescue workers who are cleaning up after Hurricane Charley.

Tim Best (left), 33, of Orlando Utilities Commission explains to customer Cliff Sutton, 77, how power was restored to Sutton's home in the College Park area of Orlando on Friday. Sutton's neighbor Matt Lonam is in the background.

Residents walk through Windmill Village on Saturday after the devastation of Hurricane Charley.

Pearl Johnson (right) gets a hug from neighbor Esther Dutt in front of her home of in southeast Orlando on Saturday. Esther's husband, Kenneth Dutt, stands at left. During Hurricane Charley, a giant oak split with half of the tree landing on the house and the other half landing on the street.

Jaqui Krouze (left), Shirley Rangeloff and Victor Rangeloff can't believe their eyes upon entering their neighborhood in the Windmill Village mobile home park in Punta Gorda.

A light pole lies on Fern Creek Avenue in Orlando on Wednesday. The road is blocked just north of Orlando Fire Department station 4. Workers (background) try to clear tree debris from wires.

Moe Desforge lays on a matress and digs through a dresser for some personal belongings and clothes. He and his wife, Audrey, have lived at Windmill Village since 1983.

Angie Stocks walks by a large paint bucket and brush knocked down by Hurricane Charley at Southern Paint & Supply Company, Sunday, in Daytona Beach.

Power trucks are bathed in light at the jai-alai fronton parking lot in Fern Park. The site is a staging area for Progress Energy's recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Charley.

Jewel Morrison glances at where her roof used to be, after walking back into her Lakewood Village mobile home in Punta Gorda.

Orange County workers and volunteers package up supplies to hand out at Union Park Middle School in Orlando on Tuesday.

Joshua Portes, 13, (left) and Pedro Medrano remove a tree limb from a home in Altamonte Springs in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley on Saturday.

Mike Shortt has been preparing for a hurricane for years. He fortified his house, stored gas for a generator and even had a battery-powered TV that his family watched during the storm. His camper with a stove also came in handy.

Cheyna Porter, 15 (left), and her mother, Yvette, take Remiyah Clark, a neighbor, to a Centra Care unit Wednesday in Poinciana. The girl has been staying with them since Charley hit.

Elizabeth Colon (left) of Florida Blood Centers helps Carol Johnson of Apopka as she donates blood Wednesday at the Hurricane Charley relief effort at TD Waterhouse Centre in Orlando. Johnson said it was the first time she had donated blood.

Thomas Coronado watches his wife, Tina, play with their 3-month-old son, Tyler. The family is living at Coronado's workplace in Haines City until they can move back into the house they are renting.

John Nguyen of Casselberry climbs around his crushed car to remove items from it Monday.

Kay Protheroe (left) and Betty Tootill hug while eating donated food in the Windmill Village Community Center on Monday in Punta Gorda.

Wanda Morris (left) and Kristina Winston of Merry Maids clean a home. The Longwood service is swamped with work.

Walgreens manager George Leubscher and assistant Chase Kramer (background) kept the prints coming in the days after the hurricane.

Erick Runyon sits on an oak tree Tuesday in front of his Orlando home, street number 511. Runyon was waiting for a tree service to take away the debris that Charley toppled onto his house.

David and Carolyn Dixon of Orlando decide to clean up and haul away the pile of hurricane debris in front of their College Park home Wednesday.

Bob Healy, a recent resident at Windmill Village, packed his bags to leave. His home was demolished.

Cranes from All Sunshine Crane of Apopka secure a huge oak Tuesday at a home on Teriwood Drive in the Lake Conway Woods neighborhood south of Orlando as cleanup continues in the aftermath of Hurrican Charley. The neighborhood was hit hard by the Aug. 13 storm, losing scores of oak trees and limbs.

Tom Eyerly looks over a wood beam that helps support a bedroom ceiling damaged by Hurricane Charley at his home in the Conway area of Orlando on Sunday. Three pine trees hit the roof.

Gale Poleschuk (left) sweeps debris Monday as her husband, Bill, cuts up the remains of a tree that fell on the roof of their Palmetto Avenue home. Structural damage to the couple?s house appeared to be minimal.

The wreckage of a small plane and debris litter the Punta Gorda Regional Airport in Port Charlotte, in the wake of Hurricane Charley. The storm killed at least 15 people in Florida and flattened oceanfront homes, leaving thousands homeless as it roared across the state.

The Rev. Bob Steele of Tampa gives free food to migrants in Haines City. His ministry brought 2 truckloads of food from Tampa and sought out people who had no way to get to stores. As the migrant community deals with widespread confusion and language barriers in the hurricane's aftermath, there are plans to set up a site in Arcadia by the end of the week to help migrant workers.

Terry Frey, of Port Charlotte, Fla., guards his house with a shotgun and pistol, Saturday morning Aug. 14, 2004, warning potential looters to stay away.

Pat Turner, 76, of Daytona Beach lost everything in her apartment off State Road A1A during Hurricane Charley. She takes a look at the damage on Saturday.

A Haines City High portable shows the damage inflicted by Charley. Water spreads across the floor, soaking papers.

Cleanup from Hurricane Charley continued Saturday at damaged businesses like this furniture store along State Road 50 in Orlando.

Nate Guerra of Gator Tree Experts steps onto the trunk of an oak tree that destroyed a home in Winter Park.

Amy Harris tries to get together her office files for Windmill Village. She is the manager there.

Spc. Marion Colon of the Florida National Guard 2nd Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment, unloads cots Tuesday at the National Guard Armory on Fern Creek Avenue in Orlando. There are about 400 National Guard members spread out across Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties helping direct traffic, patrol neighborhoods, guard utility depots and distribute relief supplies.

Harold Maynard, 76, tries to put tape and plastic bags over the holes of the roof of his pre-fab home as a storm approaches Punta Gorda.

Sterling Stockwell, 5, is fascinated Wednesday as electricity jumps toward his hand in the plasma ball while Analeila Rodriguez, 7, and others watch at the Orlando Science Center?s ?Camp Charley,? a day camp for children in kindergarten through 6th grade.

David and Wendy Mize on Thursday move furniture out of rooms in their Tuscawilla home. Waste flowed into the house when the outage disabled lift stations.

Monty Knox, vice president of Knox Nursery, surveys the missing roof of 1 of his greenhouses Thursday. The nursery survived Charley mostly intact.

Wilfredo Hernandez and Margaret Gonzalez, whose home in southeast Orlando was damaged, listen Sunday to Tom Graham of FEMA explain their options for hazard mitigation at a newly opened office on Goldenrod Road. ?They're giving us hope at least,' Hernandez said.

Don Huntington (left) and son Keith of Quality Aircraft Salvage disassemble a 1940s era Beech 18 on Thursday. It was the only airplane out in the open when Hurricane Charley hit with wind gusts of up to 105 mph.

As clouds gather on Sunday, Manuel Ortiz and Wobert Joseph finish the roof of the Greyhound bus station damaged by Hurricane Charley.

Pablo Huritau, who works for Asplundh Tree Service in Dallas, takes his clean laundry to his truck this week before heading out to work. As many as a thousand workers a day use the Fern Park site for sleep, food and other essential needs.

With the roads closed off to most vehicles, Marion Lindley, 87, of Punta Gorda uses her tricycle to maneuver through the devastation of what used to be the Parkhill Mobile Home Park where she retired about 12 years ago. "I just can't believe my eyes," said Lindley, who stops to take a picture of the damage caused to a neighbor's home by Hurricane Charley.

The shelves are bare Sunday at the Save Rite supermarket at 1532 W. Vine St.?© in Kissimmee. The store also ran out of water and ice.

In Port Charlotte Elena Martinez helps salvage musical instruments from Westchester Gold, a pawn shop and gold distributor in Port Charlotte that was decimated.

Theresa Coughlin, 80, and her husband Form, 82, have been in 3 shelters since being told to evacuate their east Orange County mobile-home community a week ago. They now reside in a special-needs center in Orlando.

Christopher Columbus, 71, cleans up one of his two mobile homes that were destroyed by Hurricane Charley in Punta Gorda.

Raul Perez Jr. drinks a glass of ice water Tuesday after working in his yard on Julio Lane in the Monterey neighborhood. He has had electricity and other services since Saturday morning.

Employees of Beachcomber Liquors in Port Charlotte look at the damage caused by Hurricane Charley on Friday. A U-Haul truck sits in the middle of the store. The Category 4 storm came ashore nearby with 145-mph winds, and Gov. Jeb Bush predicted damage would be in the billions of dollars. President Bush declared the regions in Florida affected by Charley and Tropical Storm Bonnie a federal disaster area.

Hurricane Charley ripped through Punta Gorda Regional Airport, causing extensive damage.

Hurricane Charley uprooted this tree and dumped it onto a house on Sedgewick Place in the Conway area of Orlando, where much damage was done.

Warren Wagner of the Waterford Lakes area of Orange County unloads storm debris from his pickup at a collection site. It was the last of his 6 loads Monday.

President Bush hugs Harriet Franklin on Sunday at the Ermergency Operations Center in Punta Gorda. Franklin is the secretary for Charlotte County Emergency Management Director Wayne P. Sallade (left).

Rich Naegeli, the 1st zoo director at Busch Gardens in Tampa, holds a new-born Eclectus parrot earlier this week at his home. The hurricane left Naegeli unable to pump water for his myriad animals.

Kissimmee Utility Authority and Gainesville Regional Utilities employees clear a pole and transformers from a road Monday.

Orlando Executive Airport suffered considerable damage in the hangars and to the planes after Hurricane Charley.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers use bright orange cones to restrict turns Monday as they direct traffic during the morning rush hour at Lake Pickett Road and East Colonial Drive. It was 1 of the intersections throughout Central Florida where traffic signals were not working on the 1st work day since Hurricane Charley came through.

The Ranger Aviation hanger at Kissimee Gateway Airport in Osceola County was shredded by Hurricane Charley.

Caterer Frank Thornton (right) helps serve up a heaping helping of food to hundreds of hungry energy workers every day. Breakfast starts at 5 a.m.

Trucks line up at the Orange County Agricultural Center debris-collection site on Conway Road on Sunday. Businesses, governments and residents in Hurricane Charley's path have spent the week clearing debris left from the storm.

A jetway wrecked by Hurricane Charley awaits repairs at Orlando International Airport on Thursday.

James Carter of Florida Industrial Electric in Longwood works for the city of Orlando on Monday to fix the hurricane-damaged traffic signal at Crystal Lake Drive and South Street. While almost all customers of other area utilities have power, about 5,600 customers of Kissimmee Utility Authority remain without electricity.

A 120-foot oak fell the length of Curtis Bankston's double-wide home, driving 3 limbs through the roof of his living room and kitchen. The just-retired youth counselor and his wife, Maxine, hope their insurance company and FEMA will help them buy a safer place.

At Poinciana High, sophomores Nicole Torres (left), Kimberly Khang and other students eat under a tent Monday.

Michel Banoczy (right) of Tampa and her boyfriend, Ron Rottstedt, prepare to distribute supplies to mobile-home residents in Fort Meade on Sunday. Friends had donated cheese, ham, turkey, bread, water, toilet paper and pet food. ?This could be us,' Banoczy said. ?The storm was coming our way. We were blessed and wanted to help.

Test Track cast member David Edwards (right) gives directions to Brooks Moreau, 7, his dad, Scott Moreau, and sister Emilie, 11, on Tuesday. The hurricane broke windows in Edwards' Orlando home, and his power was out for a couple of days.

Many trees toppled over roofs in Central Florida homes from Hurricane Charley such as this one in east Orange County.

Rose Sneider takes photos of her property in Punta Gordon. "It looks like a war zone," she said Saturday, a day after Hurricane Charley tore through.

Alberto Castellanos, 60, tells workers Thursday that everybody nearby but he and a neighbor have power. The southeast Orlando resident uses a machine to ease his asthma.

Hurricane Charley devastated Windmill Village in Punta Gorda.

A thank-you note to utility workers hangs on the State Road 472 overpass at Interstate 4 between Deltona and DeLand.

Jeffery Meyers (left) and his stepfather, Hernan Hernandez, place a tarp on the roof of their east Orange County home, a do-it-yourself, temporary repair for leaks caused by the hurricane.

Reinaldo Gonzalez of ABC Transfer of Clewiston, which has a contract with Orlando, works at Garden Plaza and Royal Palm Court. The trash will be loaded onto a tractor-trailer and hauled away.

Many small planes lay overturned or destroyed at Orlando Executive Airport in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley. Dozens of planes were torn from their moorings and flipped.

Anne M. Loehnert (left) sits on what was her home with her friend, Jane McCallum (right) at Windmill Village in Punta Gorda. She is looking for her cat and says "I just got the clothes on my back."

Evan Johnson (left) and Chris Brown move logs Friday past a statue of Jesus Christ at the Glen Haven Memorial Park cemetery in Winter Park.

Gathering aid People bring donations to help victims of Hurricane Charley to the News Center in Tampa, Sunday.

Diners line up Saturday at Louie's Bar-B-Q on U.S. Highway 17-92 in Sanford. Despite having no power himself, owner Tim Carner (right) set up grills in front of the restaurant.

Brevard County had some damage from Hurricane Charley, including this gas station on State Road A1A just south of Patrick Air Force Base near Satellite Beach.

This message, at an Osceola County home off the Osceola Parkway, was written with pieces from the homeowner's fence.

Visiting affected areas Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, center, talks to a distraught woman seeking help with the severe damage to her home by Hurricane Charley, on his way to a news conference at the emergency command center in Punta Gorda, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2004.

Johnny O'Donnell, 23, of Maitland heads to help clear debris on Winter Park's Berwick Street on Tuesday. O'Donnell is helping with the cleanup on the street where he grew up and where his mom still lives. ?If you're able to help, I think that you should,' he says.

Marion Fuller of Orlando (left) gets assistance loading bags of ice into his car from Fred Jarrett of Winter Park Ice on Sunday.