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• Aug. 16: A boy plays in the wreckage of his grandparent's mobile home in Island, Fla.
• Aug. 16: Workers clear trees in order to repair a power pole blown over by Hurricane Charley in Orange County, Fla.
• Aug. 15: The general manager of the Pineland Marina, surveys the scene at the marina in Pineland, Fla.
• Aug. 15: President Bush and Gov. Jeb Bush, center, speak with reporters while visiting Punta Gorda, Fla.
• Aug. 15: President Bush, aboard the Marine One chopper, flies over a crumpled airplane hanger at the Port Charlotte Airport.
• Aug. 15, 2004: President Bush salutes upon exiting Marine One in Fort Myers, Fla., after touring the devastation of Charley.
• Aug. 15: A man sits in front of what used to be his home on Pine Island, Fla.
• Aug. 15: Dave Webster waits in a long line to buy ice at a local grocery store in North Fort Meyers, Fla.
• Aug. 15, 2004: Cubans walk by a century-old tree uprooted by Hurricane Charley in West of Havana, Cuba.
• 'God Saved Us All' is spray painted onto the roof of a school that was blown across the street in Punta Gorda, Fla.
• Aug. 15: William Brown, left, hands Pastor Roger Kelley a case of water to give out to residents of Punta Gorda, Fla.
• Aug. 15: Utility workers cut downed power lines as part of a long process to restore electricity in Punta Gorda, Fla.