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Tampa's new MacDill 48 Park features a trail system around a 10-acre, 25-million-gallon stormwater pond designed to ease flooding in South Tampa and improve water quality in Hillsborough Bay.

Tampa’s newest park doubles as flood protection

Tampa's new MacDill 48 Park features a trail system around a 10-acre, 25-million- gallon stormwater pond designed to ease flooding in South Tampa and improve water quality in Hillsborough Bay.

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Masthead gallery: Tampa Oratorio Singers perform Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor

A photo gallery from the Tampa Oratorio Singers' free hurricane relief benefit performance of Mozart's Great Mass in C minor at Palma Ceia Presbyterian Church in Tampa.

Masthead gallery: Florida Birding & Nature Festival

A photo gallery from the eighth annual Florida Birding & Nature Festival at the Suncoast Youth Conservation Center in Apollo Beach. 

A photo of flooding in St. Pete Beach from Helene posted to the CRIS-HAZARD app.
New USF flooding app debuts for Helene, Milton

A new app USF developed with Georgia Tech uses crowdsourced photos and videos to provide near real-time data on neighborhood-level flooding. It debuted for Helene and Milton.

Masthead gallery: Seaside Seabird Sanctuary community cleanup

A photo gallery from the Seaside Seabird Sanctuary's community cleanup event following Hurricane Helene.

Feeding Tampa Bay has daily food and emergency distribution events for hurricane relief. After Milton delivered a double whammy to the region, the nonprofit urgently needs volunteers.
Tampa Bay nonprofits expand hurricane relief after Milton

In the middle of helping the community recover from Helene, Tampa Bay's nonprofits are expanding their relief work after Milton delivers a second hit to the region.

In St. Petersburg, Milton toppled a construction crane at The Residences at 400 Central, the city’s tallest building, and ripped the roof off of Tropicana Field.
Milton recovery: Bridges reopen, evacuation orders begin to lift

After Hurricane Milton battered the Tampa Bay region with high winds and torrential rains, recovery begins.

Tampa has extended free parking in city-owned garages to protect vehicles during Hurricane Milton through noon Friday.
Reeling from Helene, Tampa Bay braces for Milton

Reeling from Helene, Tampa Bay braces for Milton. Details on evacuation orders, shelters and free paring in city garages to keep vehicles out of floodwaters. 

A pile of flooded, ruined furniture in front of Dave Scheiber's Snell Isle area home.
Helene floodwaters and a flood of family and friends

For Snell Isle resident and longtime area journalist and freelance writer Dave Schreiber and his family, what matters most after Helene is not what they lost, but how much they still have.

Masthead gallery: Helene’s aftermath in Tampa Bay

A photo gallery of the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Tampa Bay neighborhoods

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