Dozens of homeowners filled an auditorium at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, to plead with the city for flood mitigation support.
For the first time, crews with the city of St. Petersburg went door-to-door in Riviera Bay and Shore Acres to deliver more than 800 sandbags to residents hit hard by recent flooding.
ST. PETERSBURG — Sara Eve Schaeffer sat atop her kitchen counter with her dog, Delly, on Wednesday listening to the electrical currents from her appliances pop and spark as the water rose below in her Shore Acres home. A day later, there was still standing water in her daughter’s bedroom, the pink walls crinkled above the baseboards. Schaeffer worried parts of the rainbow mural she painted in .