Mayor Ken Welch has touted the need for agile resilience since back-to-back hurricanes decimated the area in September and October. St. Petersburg will now purchase a deployable flood wall and ...
Recent storms have hit some areas of St. Petersburg particularly hard, leaving residents with serious flooding and wind damage. To better prepare the city for the next storm, officials are ...
"Not everybody can do that.'' As in other parts of the Tampa Bay area, most of the St. Petersburg houses affected by the new flood law are relatively modest places not on the water. The median ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA ... it was a no brainer. “No flood zones,” she said. “None.” They’re moving. Now the question is, where? “We are very heavily looking at elevation ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Since back-to-back hurricanes in our area, we've covered permit issues, regulations forcing people to move or lift up homes, and recently, FEMA housing vouchers running ...