Twenty years ago, Frances and Jeanne left major mark in four-storm month

The front pages of the Lake City Reporter in September 2004 (including Sept. 7 and Sept. 28 above and Sept. 8 below) were all about the impacts Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne made on Columbia County. The two storms, which arrived three weeks apart, were the first direct impacts from a named storm that the county had received in 40 years. (FILE)

There haven’t been many times in his four-plus decades as a county commissioner that Ron Williams has felt helpless.

However, 20 years ago this month is one of those times where Williams didn’t have ma…