As Hurricane Helene bore down on Florida last week, Tampa General Hospital built a protective wall made of of reinforced PVC, laminate and steel to keep out rising flood waters.
Many thousands of residents in the western part of the state have no clean water, as well as no electricity or gas with which to boil water. People were collecting wood to build fires for cooking.
Heavy storm surge from Helene made the streets of downtown Tampa resemble the open ocean – except at the base of Tampa ...