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As Hurricane Charley’s winds began to roar through his canal-side neighborhood in Punta Gorda, Florida, on August 13, 2004, Jim Minardi took shelter in the home of his neighbors Don and Connie Farquharson. He says they “settled in with a really good bottle of California wine,” and opened the shutters on the back door a couple of inches to watch the storm.
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Williams, J. (2009). Winds and Currents. In: The AMS Weather Book: The Ultimate Guide to America’s Weather. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-55-3_3
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