TAMPA – Hurricane Milton has strengthened ... on a path toward Florida where it will bring the risk of life-threatening storm surge, destructive winds and flooding rain. Hurricane Watches ...

Bowles and 11 others perished as Helene hit the Tampa Bay area harder ... But he drowned in the surge. “It’s really sad to me how he died. He lived a good life. He loved the beach,” Visnick ...

(AP) — Aiden Bowles was stubborn, so even as Florida officials told residents of the barrier island north of St. Petersburg that Hurricane Helene's storm surge ... hit the Tampa Bay area harder ...

(AP) — Aiden Bowles was stubborn, so even as Florida officials told residents of the barrier island north of St. Petersburg that Hurricane Helene’s storm surge could be deadly, the retired ...

(AP) — Aiden Bowles was stubborn, so even as Florida officials told residents of the barrier island north of St. Petersburg that Hurricane Helene’s storm surge could be deadly ... perished as Helene ...

Still, his deputies did try to save residents, but the surge forced their boats and vehicles back. The Tampa Bay area has been extremely lucky over the last century. Since the last major storm ...

In the Tampa Bay region and west-central Florida, there is more uncertainty about whether or not life-threatening surge will occur, but the potential of what could happen is historically bad.

Crews work to clean up the tons of sand and debris pushed onto Gulf Boulevard from Hurricane Helene storm surge, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Indian Shores, Fla. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via ...