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Chokoloskee resident Helen Bryan holds a photo she took from her porch after Hurricane Wilma on October 24, 2005, in front of the same vantage point on October 20, 2010. Lexey Swall/Staff

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Chokoloskee resident Helen Bryan holds a photo she took from her porch after Hurricane Wilma on October 24, 2005, in front of the same vantage point on October 20, 2010. Lexey Swall/Staff

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  • Rudy Porter, Marc Gagnon, and Don McAuley, left to right, help board up a neighbors home along Fort Myers Beach Thursday in preparation for Hurricane Francis. The owner of the home, Achim Fuhr, did not board up for Hurricane Charley. With all the loose debris along Fort Myers Beach, the homeowner decided to cover all his windows.
  • Hurricane Wilma at the Naples Pier.
  • A small army of employees, friends and volunteers descended on Doc's Beach House in Bonita Springs Monday to sandbag and otherwise prep the popular waterside establishment for the wrath of Hurricane Fay.
  • Chokoloskee resident Helen Bryan holds a photo she took from her porch after Hurricane Wilma on October 24, 2005, in front of the same vantage point on October 20, 2010. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Nathaniel Mowatt, 3, of Punta Gorda Heights clutches a sack full of food, Sunday, August 15, 2004 provided by Life Church in Ft. Myers. Several organizations turned an inoperable gas station into a makeshift center for emergency supplies to help throngs of Hurricane Charley survivors who had no food, water and other necessities. Michel Fortier/Naples Daily News
  • San Carlos Park resident mary Hubbell, foreground, and friend Sallie Wise, background, visiting from Michigan, walk by a boarded up but still open Times Square Apparel store on Fort Myers Beach Monday. Michel Fortier/Staff
  • RedCross4, Jonathan Rivera keeps Mariano, his 7 month-old son happy, while his wife, Candice, talks with Red Cross volunteers about receiving aid at Riverside Baptist Church in Ft. Myers Tuesday. Jonathan Rivera, a souse chef, found work in Naples at Flemings, a restaurant, so he and his family are trying to relocate after loosing their apartment in downtown Punta Gorda that was destroyed by Hurricane Charley. Erik Kellar/Staff
  • After taking much of the dock at The Tarpon Club Marina on Isles of Capri, Hurricane Wilma battered many yachts to the point of sinking. Jason Easterly/Staff .je
  • Jann Gierman, 57, moves old Christmas decorations and other personal items around in the storage shed next to her mobile so she can drive her golf cart out of it Monday morning. Gierman came back to her mobile home from Michigan on Saturday to find that the shed had been destroyed during Hurricane Wilma. 'I'm just thankful to still have a home,' Gierman said. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • :Francisco Bernal sits in front of what used to be his home inside the Pink Citrus Mobile Home Park two days after Hurricane Charley. Bernal is one of about 500 people in the park, located on Pine Island, Fla., whose home was damaged during during the category four hurricane. Lexey Swall/Naples Daily News
  • Images taken during Hurricane Wilma on October 24, 2010 in Chokoloskee. Bruce Hitchcock
  • 10/25/05-Pool cages and boats seemed to show the brunt of the damage, despite Marco Island being in Hurricane Wilma's bullseye. A majority of the buildings showed little structural damage from the air. Michel Fortier/Staff
  • Scenes from the Golden Gate Estates brush fire from the air on May 30, 2008. Greg Kahn/Staff
  • Charlie Brutus, 58, inspects the damage to his shed crushed by multiple fallen trees after a tornado a went through at 8 a.m. following the front end of Hurricane Wilma in Copeland, Fla (less than 10 miles north of Everglades City) on October 24, 2005. Brutus, a Landscape Maintenance worker saw had his mowers and equipment crushed next to his home which had 10 fallen trees on it. Garrett Hubbard/Naples Daily News
  • Bonita Springs Fire Rescue Deputy Chief Shane Sibert uses a garden hose to protect a home on the corner of Everglades Boulevard and Fourth Avenue Southeast as his firefighters joint the battle against a massive brush fire on Thursday, May 29, 2008 in eastern Golden Gates Estates. Strong winds whipped a half-acre brush fire into a 200-acre inferno in eastern Golden Gates Estates leveling several homes and causing the evacuation hundred of residents. David Albers/ Staff
  • People fill the floor of Germain Arena in Estero, as they seek shelter from Hurricane Charley Friday (August 13). More than 2,000 people came to Germain Arena looking for shelter from Hurricane Charley, which hit Southwest Florida Friday afternoon. David Ahntholz/Staff
  • A house at 320 Everglades Boulevard stands intact surrounded by soot and ash on Friday, May 30, 2008, where a brush fire burned Thursday night through the eastern Golden Gates Estates. Residents are returning to their Golden Gate homes after evacuating during a 800-acre brush fire that raged through eastern Golden Gate Estates on Thursday night. David Albers/ Staff

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