Only three weeks after Hurricane Charley pounded southwestern and central Florida, another vicious storm has taken its toll on the weary peninsula. Hurricane Frances, a powerful Category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 105 mph, uprooted trees, peeled off roofs, and snapped power lines, causing more than 5 million people to lose power. Read more from Associated Press(1).
Satellite image taken at 8:15 a.m. (EDT) on September 4th and released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows Hurricane Frances beginning to hit the east coast of Florida.

1. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20040905/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_frances