As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida's west-central coast, Tampa General Hospital, located on a low-lying, man-made island, is bracing for disaster and preparing to put its flood defenses to the ...

Hurricane Milton is expected to bring deadly levels of storm surge at 10 to 15 feet and ... For example, the map shows Tampa General Hospital at a 9-foot elevation. Click here to use the map.

The sprawling St. Petersburg campus sustained $1.51 million in damage during hurricanes Helene and Milton. About 200 children ...

Tampa-St. Petersburg is a rapidly-growing, low-lying metropolitan area of nearly 3 million, with a coastline that is highly vulnerable to storm surge flooding from a tropical storm or hurricane.

The surge could inundate large ... will feel the effects of this major storm. The eye wall of Hurricane Milton was beginning to move onshore near Tampa and St. Petersburg, the National Hurricane ...

In Tarpon Springs, a coastal community northwest of Tampa, 60 patients were evacuated from a hospital out of concern that the system could bring a 7-foot (2.1-meter) storm surge. After landing in ...

It packed Category 4 winds of 138 mph. While the focus was on its catastrophic landfall, the hurricane’s record-breaking storm surge in Tampa Bay and destructive tornado outbreak far inland made ...