Charley’s aftermath - more

Richard Miller, Ed McCall and Tim Williams (from left) of All County Window and Door replace a window at Pioneer Graphics, Orlando.  (JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Walgreens manager George Leubscher and assistant Chase Kramer (background) kept the prints coming in the days after the hurricane.  (JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Wanda Morris (left) and Kristina Winston of Merry Maids clean a home. The Longwood service is swamped with work.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Power poles lean slightly to the right along State Road 60, heading west from Lake Wales. The sunset colors the western sky with a range of brilliant hues.  (JULIE FLETCHER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

James Carter of Florida Industrial Electric in Longwood works for the city of Orlando on Monday to fix the hurricane-damaged traffic signal at Crystal Lake Drive and South Street. While almost all customers of other area utilities have power, about 5,600 customers of Kissimmee Utility Authority remain without electricity.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

A Haines City High portable shows the damage inflicted by Charley. Water spreads across the floor, soaking papers.  (JULIE FLETCHER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Scott Haver of Keller Outdoor recently adds to a stack of tree limbs being moved from Woodsmere Avenue near Lake Knowles as cleanup from Hurricane Charley continues. The task of collecting the tree limbs and other debris will not be quick — much depends on how many cleanup crews can be assembled and put to work.  (JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

A tree sits on a house on Sedgewick Place in south Orange County on Aug. 19. Charley hit homeowners the hardest.  (BOBBY COKER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

At Poinciana High, sophomores Nicole Torres (left), Kimberly Khang and other students eat under a tent Monday.  (ED SACKETT/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Clark Shealy (left) and Joe Young, linemen with Gainesville Regional Utilities, work high atop KUA power poles to help restore electricity that was knocked out by Hurricane Charley.  (ED SACKETT/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Warren Wagner of the Waterford Lakes area of Orange County unloads storm debris from his pickup at a collection site. It was the last of his 6 loads Monday.  (HILDA M. PEREZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Gainesville Regional Utilities workers linemen repair transformers in downtown Kissimmee on Wednesday.  (ED SACKETT/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Federal workers stay busy Monday at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Disaster Field Office in Orlando. Gov. Jeb Bush toured the office and talked to workers at the facility. FEMA’s statewide emergency response to Hurricane Charley is being managed from the Orlando office.  (JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Jeanie Gillman, a FEMA community-relations officer from West Virginia, climbs through debris Wednesday along 38th Street in Orlando in an effort to reach homeowners and renters affected by Hurricane Charley.  (HILDA M. PEREZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Wayne Root heads into what is left of the hangar Monday at the Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum.  (ED SACKETT/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Transformers line the parking lot of the jai-alai fronton in Fern Park this week. Progress Energy is using the area as a staging site for its recovery operations throughout Central Florida.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

A 120-foot oak fell the length of Curtis Bankston’s double-wide home, driving 3 limbs through the roof of his living room and kitchen. The just-retired youth counselor and his wife, Maxine, hope their insurance company and FEMA will help them buy a safer place.  (HILDA M. PEREZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Pablo Huritau, who works for Asplundh Tree Service in Dallas, takes his clean laundry to his truck this week before heading out to work. As many as a thousand workers a day use the Fern Park site for sleep, food and other essential needs.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Wilfredo Hernandez and Margaret Gonzalez, whose home in southeast Orlando was damaged, listen Sunday to Tom Graham of FEMA explain their options for hazard mitigation at a newly opened office on Goldenrod Road. ‘They’re giving us hope at least,’ Hernandez said.  (SHOUN A. HILL/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Caterer Frank Thornton (right) helps serve up a heaping helping of food to hundreds of hungry energy workers every day. Breakfast starts at 5 a.m.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Michel Banoczy (right) of Tampa and her boyfriend, Ron Rottstedt, prepare to distribute supplies to mobile-home residents in Fort Meade on Sunday. Friends had donated cheese, ham, turkey, bread, water, toilet paper and pet food. ‘This could be us,’ Banoczy said. ‘The storm was coming our way. We were blessed and wanted to help.  (HILDA M. PEREZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Power trucks are bathed in light at the jai-alai fronton parking lot in Fern Park. The site is a staging area for Progress Energy’s recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Charley.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Members of the Peace River Church of Christ sing during their 1st service since Hurricane Charley. The church’s roof was blown off during the storm, so members met beneath a makeshift tent in the church parking lot Sunday.  (MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES)

A thank-you note to utility workers hangs on the State Road 472 overpass at Interstate 4 between Deltona and DeLand.  (DENNIS WALL/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Trucks line up at the Orange County Agricultural Center debris-collection site on Conway Road on Sunday. Businesses, governments and residents in Hurricane Charley’s path have spent the week clearing debris left from the storm.  (JOE KALEITA/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Mark Thomas of Lake Conway Woods south of Orlando views tree damage to his home Tuesday. He had it for sale before Charley hit. ‘The buyers are still interested in the house, but of course they want me to get it fixed,’ he said.  (JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

As clouds gather on Sunday, Manuel Ortiz and Wobert Joseph finish the roof of the Greyhound bus station damaged by Hurricane Charley.  (JIM CARCHIDI/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Tom Eyerly looks over a wood beam that helps support a bedroom ceiling damaged by Hurricane Charley at his home in the Conway area of Orlando on Sunday. Three pine trees hit the roof.  (JOHN RAOUX/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Cranes from All Sunshine Crane of Apopka secure a huge oak Tuesday at a home on Teriwood Drive in the Lake Conway Woods neighborhood south of Orlando as cleanup continues in the aftermath of Hurrican Charley. The neighborhood was hit hard by the Aug. 13 storm, losing scores of oak trees and limbs.  (JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Navy reservists Rachael Gonzales (left) and John Caselli rinse cars Sunday at the Auto Zone on Colonial Drive in Orlando to raise money for storm victims. Some drivers gave more than the $5 donation.  (SHOUN A. HILL/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Eli Gonzalez, an electrician for Braswell Electric Inc., Lake Mary, restores electric service cut by Hurricane Charley to a mobile home on Belvedere Road in Bithlo.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Workers on Wednesday repair SeaWorld Orlando’s sign that can be seen from Interstate 4.  (JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Ricardo Leon of Glass America replaces a broken window behind a ‘now open’ sign at Park Plaza Gardens restaurant on Park Avenue in Winter Park on Friday.  (ROBERTO GONZALEZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Downed tree branches block the drive-through at a Wachovia Bank in Winter Springs.  (DENNIS WALL/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Monty Knox, vice president of Knox Nursery, surveys the missing roof of 1 of his greenhouses Thursday. The nursery survived Charley mostly intact.  (JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Ryan Antisdel, a freshman from Bedford, N.H., unpacks at Rollins College’s McKean Hall in Winter Park on Saturday while his grandmother, Nancy Deleff of Spring Hill, helps.  (TOM BURTON/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Dick Brink (left) of College Park chats on Saturday with Sumter utility workers (seated, from left) Michael Sims of South Carolina, Brandon Chambers of Georgia and Michael Strickland of South Carolina. Brink and some neighbors served hamburgers, hot dogs and sweet tea to the workers at his house.  (JACOB LANGSTON/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

At First Baptist of Pine Castle on Sunday, Walter Carriker of Etowah, N.C., stirs food for those affected by the hurricane.  (JOE KALEITA/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Hurricane Charley swallowed most of the Gatorland sign at the Kissimmee attraction. The sortm also badly damaged Leu Gardens in Orlando, parts of which will be closed, possibly for months.  (GEORGE SKENE/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Levi Vaughn, 82 (left), and wife Shirley, 79, with no power spend time on their porch on Mayfair Circle in Orlando Saturday. They lived in their house for 40 years.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Postal worker Sue Grillot wears a mask Saturday to fight odor left by the hurricane.  (BOBBY COKER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Hurricane Charley uprooted this tree and dumped it onto a house on Sedgewick Place in the Conway area of Orlando, where much damage was done.  (BOBBY COKER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Janet Parker and her newphew Connor Houghton survey the damage to the screened pool enclosure at her home east of Casselberry. The pool will need to be securedfor safety reasons. Experts advise contacting a liscenced pool contractor.  (DENNIS WALL/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Nate Guerra of Gator Tree Experts steps onto the trunk of an oak tree that destroyed a home in Winter Park.  (JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Jeffery Meyers (left) and his stepfather, Hernan Hernandez, place a tarp on the roof of their east Orange County home, a do-it-yourself, temporary repair for leaks caused by the hurricane.  (JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Nyree Jackson changes the diaper of son Aryeh at her Mentor Network office in Maitland as Bonnie Bowers talks on the phone. Mom and son shared a workday because Jackson’s regular day-care center was closed in the storm’s wake.  (JULIE FLETCHER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Jack Pender of Pike Electric in North Carolina rests Friday after restoring power at Charlotte Lane in College Park. A 6-man crew has been working for days. ‘This is what we do,’ said lineman Ray Anderson. ‘This is something you like or you don’t.’  (GARY W. GREEN/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Ray Anderson of Pike Electric in North Carolina connects power lines at a home in the area of Shady Lane Drive and Charlotte Lane in College Park.  (GARY W. GREEN/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Trish Rando and her sons, Michael, 14, (center) and Stephen, 16, used their camping skills to get by. Rando’s husband, Clif, was off volunteering.  (DAVID ZENTZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Mike Shortt has been preparing for a hurricane for years. He fortified his house, stored gas for a generator and even had a battery-powered TV that his family watched during the storm. His camper with a stove also came in handy.  (JULIE FLETCHER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Maxine Shinefield (left) and Cynthia Greene, relaxing this week on their deck in Lakeridge, know what Central Floridians are enduring. After the storm in 1992, they were trapped in their town house by fallen trees and didn’t have power for 10 days.  (MAYA BELL/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Evan Johnson (left) and Chris Brown move logs Friday past a statue of Jesus Christ at the Glen Haven Memorial Park cemetery in Winter Park.  (JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Dr. John Agwunobi (left) checks on Sarah Walden, 8, and her mother, Karen Walden, on Friday at the shelter in the Hal Marston Northwest Community Center in Orlando.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Florence Barker (left) laughs with Renee McCumber at the Hal Marston Northwest Community Center on Friday.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Tim Best (left), 33, of Orlando Utilities Commission explains to customer Cliff Sutton, 77, how power was restored to Sutton’s home in the College Park area of Orlando on Friday. Sutton’s neighbor Matt Lonam is in the background.  (GARY W. GREEN/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Bonnie Drakes, a custodian at Hungerford Elementary School, helps prepare the campus for its post-Charley opening next week. Schools will start Monday in Seminole, Volusia, Osceola and Polk counties. Hungerford and other Orange County schools are to open Tuesday.  (JULIE FLETCHER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Roy MacLachlan, facilities manager, looks over Tupperware’s photo and video building. The destruction on the company’s 101 acres suggests Charley may have spawned a tornado that tore through the property.  (GEORGE SKENE/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Ashley Bitowf and Debbie Dolan (reflected), both of Daphne, Ala., get ready to leave the Ritz Carlton to work at the Southchase Home Depot on Friday.  (BOBBY COKER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

James Stevenson of OUC (reflected in mirror) talks with Pike Electric workers Keith Barnett (left) and Matthew King while they take a Gatorade break. The crews are restoring power Thursday in the Lancaster Park area of Orlando.  (JOHN RAOUX/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Nathaniel Williams of the Jacksonville Electric Authority naps Thursday during lunch break in his truck. His crew, which was brought in to help restore power lost because of storm damage, is working in Orlando’s Leu Gardens.  (JULIE FLETCHER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

David and Wendy Mize on Thursday move furniture out of rooms in their Tuscawilla home. Waste flowed into the house when the outage disabled lift stations.  (DENNIS WALL/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Theresa Coughlin, 80, and her husband Form, 82, have been in 3 shelters since being told to evacuate their east Orange County mobile-home community a week ago. They now reside in a special-needs center in Orlando.  (SHOUN A. HILL/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Thomas Coronado watches his wife, Tina, play with their 3-month-old son, Tyler. The family is living at Coronado’s workplace in Haines City until they can move back into the house they are renting.  (GEORGE SKENE/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

A jetway wrecked by Hurricane Charley awaits repairs at Orlando International Airport on Thursday.  (BOBBY COKER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Don Huntington (left) and son Keith of Quality Aircraft Salvage disassemble a 1940s era Beech 18 on Thursday. It was the only airplane out in the open when Hurricane Charley hit with wind gusts of up to 105 mph.  (BOBBY COKER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Roofers work at Orlando International Airport on Thursday as an airplane is readied for flight. All but 8 of 130 gates were functioning.  (BOBBY COKER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Michael Grasso, a property appraiser with Orange County, surveys the damage done by a tree at a home on Heron Trail in Maitland.  (JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Alberto Castellanos, 60, tells workers Thursday that everybody nearby but he and a neighbor have power. The southeast Orlando resident uses a machine to ease his asthma.  (GEORGE SKENE/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Cheyna Porter, 15 (left), and her mother, Yvette, take Remiyah Clark, a neighbor, to a Centra Care unit Wednesday in Poinciana. The girl has been staying with them since Charley hit.  (ED SACKETT/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Pedro Nieves tends to tortillas on his barbecue Thursday near downtown Kissimmee. He might not have power until next week.  (ED SACKETT/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Tina McGuire plays Monopoly with her children (from left) Thomas, 15, Randy, 13, and Christina, 8, at her parents’ home in Kissimmee on Thursday. The McGuire’s home in Taft was without power.  (ED SACKETT/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Jim Becker runs Orange County’s Solid Waste Management Division. He must help dispose of the estimated 2 million cubic yards of debris.  (BOBBY COKER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Anthony DiGaetano of Winfield Construction patches a splintered plank from the roof of a home on Dommerich Drive in Maitland. A 3-ton oak crashed into the home as Hurricane Charley passed through.  (JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Orlando Utilities Commission stacks 45-foot poles Wednesday at Edgewater High School to have them handy for the area.  (DAVID ZENTZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

This message, at an Osceola County home off the Osceola Parkway, was written with pieces from the homeowner’s fence.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

A light pole lies on Fern Creek Avenue in Orlando on Wednesday. The road is blocked just north of Orlando Fire Department station 4. Workers (background) try to clear tree debris from wires.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Volunteers David (left) and Jennifer Berrer and David-Evan, 6, help elderly residents clean up this week at the Jade Isle mobile-home park. Many residents relied on help from neighbors and strangers.  (ED SACKETT/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Jules Champaign of Bossier City, La., watches as his load of storm debris is emptied Wednesday. A debris-collection center has been set up in a park across from Sanford Middle School. Chipping equipment should be in operation at the center sometime today.  (DENNIS WALL/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

In east Orange County. Marissa Marchena (top) and her sister Natalie dry out wet books in Deerwood Elementary School on Wednesday. Roof damage allowed water to gush into the media center.  (BOBBY COKER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Jason Park (right) of Selma, N.C., rests Wednesday among fellow crew members with Progress Energy out of Garner, N.C. Out-of-state crews are using the lot at the old Kmart Shopping Center in Fern Park as a staging area.  (DENNIS WALL/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

The Rev. Bob Steele of Tampa gives free food to migrants in Haines City. His ministry brought 2 truckloads of food from Tampa and sought out people who had no way to get to stores. As the migrant community deals with widespread confusion and language barriers in the hurricane’s aftermath, there are plans to set up a site in Arcadia by the end of the week to help migrant workers.  (GEORGE SKENE/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Workers at the Orange County landfill use a machine that turns yard waste into mulch at the rate of 100 tons per hour. The increase in debris is straining workers.  (BOBBY COKER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Sterling Stockwell, 5, is fascinated Wednesday as electricity jumps toward his hand in the plasma ball while Analeila Rodriguez, 7, and others watch at the Orlando Science Center’s ‘Camp Charley,’ a day camp for children in kindergarten through 6th grade.  (DAVID ZENTZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Elizabeth Colon (left) of Florida Blood Centers helps Carol Johnson of Apopka as she donates blood Wednesday at the Hurricane Charley relief effort at TD Waterhouse Centre in Orlando. Johnson said it was the first time she had donated blood.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Reinaldo Gonzalez of ABC Transfer of Clewiston, which has a contract with Orlando, works at Garden Plaza and Royal Palm Court. The trash will be loaded onto a tractor-trailer and hauled away.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

David and Carolyn Dixon of Orlando decide to clean up and haul away the pile of hurricane debris in front of their College Park home Wednesday.  (DAVID ZENTZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Kevin Noonan, director of meter services for Orlando Utilities Commission, stands at the point of an incoming power line where OUC’s responsibility ends and a homeowner’s obligation begins. Noonan says power can’t be restored to a home if it has a damaged electric meter.  (ROBERTO GONZALEZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

David Oldread (left) tosses a bag of ice to Eric Garcia at the Sports Authority at Colonial Drive and State Road 436 in Orlando on Tuesday. Ice, water and other supplies were given away by radio station 101.1 FM (WJRR) and Darden Restaurants.  (JOHN RAOUX/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Rebecca Kemmerer looks around her boyfriend’s son’s room as she moves out of the Quails Bluff Apartments in Lake Wales. Friday’s hurricane left large chunks of ceiling on the floor.  (JULIE FLETCHER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Samuel Griffin Jr., 2, sits with his grandmother Daisy Marshall (left) and Louise Campbell in their home on Bentley Street in Orlando’s Parramore neighborhood.  (DAVID ZENTZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Raul Perez Jr. drinks a glass of ice water Tuesday after working in his yard on Julio Lane in the Monterey neighborhood. He has had electricity and other services since Saturday morning.  (HILDA M. PEREZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Caroline Erlewein, 86, fans herself with a makeshift cardboard fan Tuesday as she waits for power to be restored to her home on Montego Lane in the Monterey neighborhood off S.R. 436 in Orlando. ‘I don’t think I can make it,’ she said of the wait to receive power. ‘A block or so over they have electricity. We just feel so forgotten. ... I just want something to think about other than the heat.’  (HILDA M. PEREZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Larry Robinson (left) and others with the Seminole County Schools Facilities Services repair the ceiling at Tuskawilla Middle School on Tuesday. Water from Charley damaged some rooms and computers.  (DENNIS WALL/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Johnny O’Donnell, 23, of Maitland heads to help clear debris on Winter Park’s Berwick Street on Tuesday. O’Donnell is helping with the cleanup on the street where he grew up and where his mom still lives. ‘If you’re able to help, I think that you should,’ he says.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)

Spc. Marion Colon of the Florida National Guard 2nd Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment, unloads cots Tuesday at the National Guard Armory on Fern Creek Avenue in Orlando. There are about 400 National Guard members spread out across Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties helping direct traffic, patrol neighborhoods, guard utility depots and distribute relief supplies.  (RED HUBER/ORLANDO SENTINEL)