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PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — Residents in Pinellas County impacted by Hurricane Idalia can now apply for FEMA assistance. Pinellas County has been added to the list of Florida counties under the ...
Pinellas County leaders said this storm could bring a storm surge of between five and eight feet, more than Hurricane Idalia brought to the area. Officials said people who live near the coast ...
The storm made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane north of Steinhatchee, about 80 miles west of Gainesville. That’s just 20 miles south of where Hurricane Idalia ... to the Levy County Sheriff ...
But when Hurricane Idalia hit, the rain, storm surge and a king tide were a perfect recipe for disaster. The storm stripped Pinellas County beaches bare. Much of the beach and the dunes washed ...
(WFLA) — An emergency effort is underway to restore beaches in Pinellas ... After Hurricane Idalia battered Florida’s west coast with several feet of storm surge, the county decided to put ...
While Hurricane Idalia took a toll on turtle nesting season in Pinellas County in late August, an expert says it helped that when the storm came, many of the nests already were hatched.
Hurricane Idalia’s storm surge widened island passes, thrashed vegetation and displaced nesting wildlife. In exchange, coastal Pinellas — the most densely populated county in Florida with ...
Before-and-after images by Ping Wang, a coastal erosion researcher at USF, show what he called the most dramatic erosion he’d seen to Pinellas beaches by a single storm ... photos show the toll ...
Following Idalia’s ... debris from the storm should be placed in resident’s trash bin for regularly scheduled pick up. If it does not fit, please call 727-893-7398 and schedule a special pick up. In ...
Storm surges from Idalia caused flooding in St. Pete Beach, Florida early Wednesday morning, as captured by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office in the video below, which was shared by CNN.