Looked at this article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Charley
to settle what year it happened - arguing with wife - and it said
"Many towns such as Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte were leveled by the
hurricane."

I was in Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda two months after the hurricane
hit and those industrious old folks had already rebuilt those towns!
Real crazy exaggeration there.
So don't believe everything you read.
But you knew that already.

--Vic