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Bill and Mandy Adams board up their home in Keaton Beach, Florida before evacuating. Fort Myers Beach pictured on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, moments after Hurricane Helene passes through.
St. Pete Beach is slowly returning to normal following Hurricanes Helene and Milton. On Monday, volunteers worked to clean up the beach while a sand sifting operation on Pass-a-Grille continued.
Hurricane Helene hit Florida's Big Bend as a powerful Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds. At least 3 million homes in 5 states lost power during the storm, which has weakened to a Category 1.
After 6:30 a.m. there were nearly 1.2 million people still without power in Florida. The top five counties with power outages were: Pinellas County (St. Petersburg/Clearwater): 234,189
Linda Chaney, the commissioner of St. Pete Beach, and Mary Maloof, the mayor of Treasure Island, had asked the school board not to close Gulf Beaches. [25] The Gulf Beaches campus, which is located on 4.7-acre (1.9 ha) of land in St. Pete Beach, had been closed after the school board faced budget cuts. [26]
The hurricane created a 13% drop in visitors between October 1984 and October 1985 in Pinellas County, marking an early end to the annual "tourist season", which generally ends after Labor Day weekend; tourist spending fell accordingly. [132] After the storm, residents were allowed to return to their neighborhoods on a by-town basis.
St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 258,308, making it the fifth-most populous city in Florida and the most populous city in the state that is not a county seat (the city of Clearwater is the seat of Pinellas County). [4]
Pinellas County residents in mandatory evacuation zones must leave by 12 p.m. on Thursday, officials announced.