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The three photos are from Port Charlotte, Florida. One is of the sunset from Charlotte Harbor, one is Charlotte Harbor in the daytime, and the other is a tornado that was seen in Port Charlotte in July, 2005.
Port Charlotte is a census-designated place (CDP) in Charlotte County, Florida, United States. The population was 46,451 at the 2000 census.
The Port Charlotte area was largely platted and developed by the now-defunct General Development Corporation, which also developed many other subdivisions and municipalities along Florida's west coast. Port Charlotte is not a chartered municipality but is, however, the most-populated area in Charlotte County.
Port Charlotte is home to the Port Charlotte Town Center Mall, the Charlotte County Administration Center (home of the Charlotte County Commission chambers), as well as Charlotte Sports Park which will be the spring training home of the Tampa Bay Rays beginning in 2009.
Port Charlotte was hard hit by Hurricane Charley on August 13, 2004. The hurricane, predicted to hit Tampa, took a last-minute hard right turn into Charlotte Harbor and caused severe damage in the city of Punta Gorda and in the Port Charlotte area. Many residents were caught by surprise because of many false alarms in recent years.
In the wake of Hurricane Charley, Port Charlotte faces the challenge of finding affordable housing for its service-industry workforce. With many homes and apartments destroyed or damaged beyond repair, many low-income residents who have lived in the area for years have been forced to seek housing elsewhere. As of 2005, property values have doubled and tripled in many areas in less than three years, especially in the wake of speculation following Hurricane Charley. However, in 2006, property values fell greatly in a statewide "market correction" now leaving Charlotte County and the Port Charlotte area one of the most affordable coastal areas in Florida. Unfortunately, as of a report in October 2007; Charlotte County also has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state.
Water wars in the area are common between municipalities and counties, all fighting for a dwindling supply from local water management districts, wellfields, and the Peace River.
Port Charlotte has experienced a tremendous boom in land values between 2003 and 2005. About 800 acres (3.2 km²) of old platted lots in a portion of central Port Charlotte have been taken by the county via eminent domain and will be developed into a big mixed-use development by Kitson and Partners, who was also awarded the contract with the State of Florida and Charlotte County to develop the Babcock Ranch Project.[4][5]
Port Charlotte is also home to the Charlotte Sports Park, which, in 2009, will become the Spring Training home of the Tampa Bay Rays. As of 2008, the park is undergoing renovations to accommodate the Major League Baseball team.
Port Charlotte is home to the Port Charlotte Town Center Mall, the Charlotte County Administration Center (home of the Charlotte County Commission chambers), as well as Charlotte Sports Park which will be the spring training home of the Tampa Bay Rays beginning in 2009.
Port Charlotte was hard hit by Hurricane Charley on August 13, 2004. The hurricane, predicted to hit Tampa, took a last-minute hard right turn into Charlotte Harbor and caused severe damage in the city of Punta Gorda and in the Port Charlotte area. Many residents were caught by surprise because of many false alarms in recent years.
In the wake of Hurricane Charley, Port Charlotte faces the challenge of finding affordable housing for its service-industry workforce. With many homes and apartments destroyed or damaged beyond repair, many low-income residents who have lived in the area for years have been forced to seek housing elsewhere. As of 2005, property values have doubled and tripled in many areas in less than three years, especially in the wake of speculation following Hurricane Charley. However, in 2006, property values fell greatly in a statewide "market correction" now leaving Charlotte County and the Port Charlotte area one of the most affordable coastal areas in Florida. Unfortunately, as of a report in October 2007; Charlotte County also has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state.
Water wars in the area are common between municipalities and counties, all fighting for a dwindling supply from local water management districts, wellfields, and the Peace River.
Port Charlotte has experienced a tremendous boom in land values between 2003 and 2005. About 800 acres (3.2 km²) of old platted lots in a portion of central Port Charlotte have been taken by the county via eminent domain and will be developed into a big mixed-use development by Kitson and Partners, who was also awarded the contract with the State of Florida and Charlotte County to develop the Babcock Ranch Project.[4][5]
Port Charlotte is also home to the Charlotte Sports Park, which, in 2009, will become the Spring Training home of the Tampa Bay Rays. As of 2008, the park is undergoing renovations to accommodate the Major League Baseball team.
Today's Jumble (8/3/08):
RAWHTT = THWART; ENGERE = RENEGE; EISORE = SOIREE; MOUFAS = FAMOUS; ROBRAW = BARROW; LIEDEY = EYELID
CIRCLED LETTERS = THTENEEFSARED
What the winner of the bird-calling contest did.
"FEATHERED" (HIS) "NEST"
Today is American Family Day, Friendship Day, and National Watermelon Day.
Other things on this day in history:
8 - Roman Empire general Tiberius defeatsdefeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
435 - Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
881 - Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, where Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied
1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1492 - The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
1527 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1635 - The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance (sankin kotai) by which the feudal daimyō are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635).
1645 - Thirty Years' War: Second Battle of Nördlingen (Battle of Allerheim) - A French army under the command of Louis de Bourbon, Duc d'Enghien and Marshal Henri, Vicomte de Turenne attacks and defeats an Imperial army, led by Field Marshal Franz Baron (Freiherr) von Mercy at Alerheim, near Nördlingen, Germany.
1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built in America.
1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
1852 - First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won.
1860 - The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
1913 - Wheatland Hop Riot
1914 - World War I: Germany declares war against France.
1916 - World War I: Battle of Romani - Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army, under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal, and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai.
1923 - The deceased Warren G. Harding was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States.
1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
1936 - Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash by defeating Ralph Metcalfe at Berlin Olympics.
1940 - World War II: Italy invades British Somaliland.
1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1949 - National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
1958 - The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
1958 - The Billboard Hot 100 is founded
1960 - Niger gains independence from France.
1972 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.
1977 - United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
1981 - In the United States, Air traffic controllers affiliated with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walk off the job. President Ronald Reagan ultimately responds by firing those who ignore his order to return to work.
1981 - Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.
1996 - General William F. Garrison accepted responsibility for the outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and he retired from military service.
1997 - Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
2001 - The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing).
2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2005 - President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
435 - Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
881 - Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, where Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied
1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1492 - The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
1527 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1635 - The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance (sankin kotai) by which the feudal daimyō are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635).
1645 - Thirty Years' War: Second Battle of Nördlingen (Battle of Allerheim) - A French army under the command of Louis de Bourbon, Duc d'Enghien and Marshal Henri, Vicomte de Turenne attacks and defeats an Imperial army, led by Field Marshal Franz Baron (Freiherr) von Mercy at Alerheim, near Nördlingen, Germany.
1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built in America.
1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
1852 - First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won.
1860 - The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
1913 - Wheatland Hop Riot
1914 - World War I: Germany declares war against France.
1916 - World War I: Battle of Romani - Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army, under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal, and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai.
1923 - The deceased Warren G. Harding was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States.
1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
1936 - Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash by defeating Ralph Metcalfe at Berlin Olympics.
1940 - World War II: Italy invades British Somaliland.
1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1949 - National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
1958 - The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
1958 - The Billboard Hot 100 is founded
1960 - Niger gains independence from France.
1972 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.
1977 - United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
1981 - In the United States, Air traffic controllers affiliated with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walk off the job. President Ronald Reagan ultimately responds by firing those who ignore his order to return to work.
1981 - Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.
1996 - General William F. Garrison accepted responsibility for the outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and he retired from military service.
1997 - Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
2001 - The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing).
2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2005 - President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
4 comments:
Drdad, wonderful, thank you! I've been living here since 2004, right after Hurricane Charlie. My husband and I helped to get his mother's home restored after Hurricane Charlie. She has since passed away. You can google her "Betty Talburt" amazing woman, mother-inlaw and grandmother that I believe was on every committee there was. We were lucky to have property on the Jupiter waterway and were building a home which took 23 months to build, can you believe? We moved in Sept of 2005 and although we love it here, and were in real estate we have since gone "inactive" because of the housing market here. I will continue to read your blog and history of other cities and who knows we might decide to buy some other property because of your blog! Thanks again!!!
Hi DrDad, Thought I'd drop in for a visit. Beautiful picures here, I have never seen a tornado..having lived in the Pacific NW most all of my life. My husband and I moved to Sheridan, Wyo. for a very brief time in 1972. That was quite an experience for us as we had never been East of Idaho, except for when I was a child and went to Yellowstone on a family vacation. Beautiful country there and all around the area...still, I'd very much like to visit the South. We have a 20+year old cat and she keeps us home-bound. When she goes to her "reward", we plan to travel.
We want to see this country first.
I'll quit "bending" your ear now, and "see" you on the blog come Monday. (It sure has changed in tone hasn't it?) Let's not let the Trolls win, ok?
Regards
Wow, drdad! Nice pictures of Port Charlotte, FL. It is beautiful, isn't it? I can travel through you, save money and time and see the world. Great idea. 3 of my kids went on a 5 wk, 12 state, bike, hike, road trip last summer. Wyoming was one of their favorite states. Carol lived in Sheridan Wy once. Would you do something on that place if you have time? The kids said that the most beautiful sunsets were in WY.
I love your list of events for this day...I remember when the air traffic controllers walked off the job...and Reagan fired them all. That was in '81!!! Seems like forever ago. ...ok, it was, but that was so huge.
Thanks for this blog. It's very interesting and very very well done...of course, as you would do it.
TTYL,
drdad, great site! I've been reading it since you started, and I've learned something new every day. My apologies for not contributing comments earlier, but I'll try to correct that in the future. Keep up the good work!
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