============================================================ DIGITAL DIGEST � http://www.naplesnews.com � August 21, 2004 ============================================================ Subscribe to the Naples Daily News: http://web.naplesnews.com/circulation/ ARMY OF HELPERS DESCENDS UPON DEVASTATED ARCADIA They were the staples of life � shampoo, toothpaste, bleach and toilet paper. They arrived in a 4-by-4 pickup that was towing a flatbed trailer. But it was as if Santa and his sleigh had landed on the street in front of the Redlands Christian Migrant Association building in Arcadia on Friday. Children, parents, sisters and brothers ran from the nearby two-story gray government housing apartments to grab up the �goodies� before they were gone. Cars jammed the street, horns tooted, drivers waved wanting in on it. CHARLOTTE COUNTY RESIDENTS TRYING TO PICK UP THE PIECES Storm victims left homeless by Hurricane Charley are now left wondering how they figure into federal plans to deliver temporary housing to Florida. Federal Emergency Management Agency human services officer Paul Fay said Friday that FEMA already has put 25 families into temporary quarters in travel trailers across parts of the state along Charley�s path. He said he did not know where. Fay said more temporary housing is on its way to a staging area in Tampa, but he could not say how many units or how soon they would get there. WHERE WERE YOU AS HURRICANE CHARLEY HIT? Perhaps it was inevitable. C-H-A-R, as in Charlotte County. L-E-Y, as in Lee County. It was Friday the 13th between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. when The Eye of Charley teased and tormented the Southwest Florida coast. Then he unleashed on the barrier islands of northern Lee County, veered toward Punta Gorda and swept at hurricane force across the state. Many of us in Southwest Florida will forever remember where we were that afternoon. What we were doing. What we were thinking. HURRICANE CHARLEY VICTIMS DECRY PRESENCE OF GAWKERS They�re on the verge of sticking this sign outside their Charley-torn mobile home community: Don�t Feed the Animals. With streams of vehicles creeping through their smashed community on Punta Gorda�s outskirts, the neighbors feel like animals at the zoo. �Some people are just gawking,� said Carol Bartlett, in her early 50s, as she pauses from shifting her soggy belongings from her caved-in home to trash bags. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com IN PERSPECTIVE: WHITE HOUSE WATCH: KENNEDY�S AIRLINE TRAVAILS SHOW THAT WE HAVE A PROBLEM Ted Kennedy was trying to get on a plane in Washington to go home to Boston. He was denied a seat by an airline agent who refused to say why the senator, who had been flying to and from Boston nearly every week for 42 years, could not board. Kennedy, one of the nation�s most recognizable politicians and a Massachusetts senator since 1962, went to the agent�s supervisor, who eventually, reluctantly, let him fly. At the airport in Boston, Kennedy ran into the same situation when trying to return to Washington. Read more commentary and get local editorials and today�s Letters to the Editor at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/perspective/ IN FLORIDA KERRY FOLLOWS LONG TRAIL OF POLITICIANS IN HURRICANE-HIT FLORIDA Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry walked through a damaged trailer park and visited an emergency operations center Friday, joining a long line of politicians touring this hurricane-slammed area in the largest swing state in the nation. Since Hurricane Charley tore through southwest and central Florida late last week, President Bush, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, Health Secretary Tommy Thompson and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao have come to promise relief and console residents whose lives have been blown inside out. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/florida/ IN NEAPOLITAN: CONGREGANTS TURN TO PRAYER AFTER CHARLEY�S DEVASTATION The Rev. Scott Borden survived Hurricane Charley by huddling in a small closet and praying as the storm passed over his home, then hit his nearby church, leaving the sanctuary in tatters. Fearing his 600-member congregation would be scattered after the Aug. 13 storm, Borden was surprised when dozens of them turned up in the courtyard of First Alliance Church to pray and comfort one another. �I believe that God is at work, even in Charley,� he said. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/neapolitan/
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