I agree with the post about history. I live in Port Charlotte. I went to school in Punta Gorda. My high school was built in 1926 and has a lot of tradition. Also the whole town of Punta Gorda does, built and settled in the late 1800's , When Charley came through he destroyed my high school and many of the things that make this place my home. And they will put new buildings up and new houses up but I prefer it the way it was. All I can say though is we were blessed in Charley that the storm was extreme wind and very little surge, and we can clearly that wind may do severe damage but storm surge is the real killer.