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3,025 lives lost: Looking back at Hurricane Jeanne’s devastation 16 years later
Read full article: 3,025 lives lost: Looking back at Hurricane Jeanne’s devastation 16 years laterThat’s right, it was the year the Sunshine State was slammed by four hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne. Hurricane Jeanne was the last of of the group, making landfall early in the morning on Sept. 26, 2004, just 16 years ago this week. The Category 3 hurricane made landfall just east of Stuart, Florida on Hutchinson Island. Jeanne came onshore in the same vicinity just three weeks after Hurricane Frances,” he said. It took almost an entire weekend for the 55-mile wide eye to move across the state,” Sorrells said.