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“The owners of this park have not been responsive. They have not been good community members,” one county official told Jack Prator. “Our approach is to assist the residents, but hold the owners accountable, and we are prepared to do that.” 👀 tampabay.com/hurricane/2024…

1/ Photojournalist Douglas R. Clifford has reported on dozens of storms since he began at the Tampa Bay Times in 1998. Ahead of Helene, Clifford awaited landfall from a Tallahassee hotel room, hundreds of miles from home. Then, he got a text from his wife: “Doug, I’m scared."

I spent last month talking to dozens waiting in line at Tampa Bay homeless shelters. Weeks before #Helene, one lady said: "A lot of people are only one paycheck, one hurricane or one something from homelessness." Their experiences, in their own words: tampabay.com/news/florida/2…

Spent a week w Tampa Bay Times colleagues documenting the night of Hurricane Helene. 12 locals died, but SO MANY more who didn’t evac had close calls. I tried, but could not capture all the terror and loss. If told to leave for Milton, I beg you, please try. tampabay.com/hurricane/2024…

Milton just became a Category 4 hurricane. It was still a tropical storm until yesterday afternoon. tampabay.com/hurricane/2024…

The Monday afternoon update on #HurricaneMilton from Bob Henson and myself: yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/10/catego…

There is still time to get out, Tampa Bay. But the clock is ticking. Here’s how to leave without a car or a ton of spare cash. Uber is offering free rides to shelters with the code MILTONRELIEF. Buses are free. Shelters are open. More info: tampabay.com/hurricane/2024…

BOOKMARK/SHARE: Tampa Bay Times made a resource list to help Tampa Bay residents find up-to-date-info on everything from road closures to outages. Plus, where to get food, WiFi & more after #Milton . We'll keep updating. No paywall. DM me links we've missed. tampabay.com/hurricane/2024…

For my Brandon/Riverview friends, looks like the Alafia is expected to reach record flood levels. #HurricaneMilton #Alafia

Just a note that water samplers still need to confirm with data whether this is red tide — and just how strong it’s blooming Sampling was paused because of the storm but will be picking back up today. We’re all curious what the results will show

After a crane plunged hundreds of feet and hit an office building during Hurricane Milton, many in Tampa Bay are asking: How could this happen? No one except the contractor appears to be investigating. tampabay.com/hurricane/2024… Bethany Barnes Colleen Wright Rebecca Woolington Dirk Shadd

“We’ve never seen anything of this magnitude before, we’ve never seen this influx of people from out of the area that are clearly just here to steal and to pilfer and to do bad things and to target these vulnerable people,” the sheriff said. tampabay.com/news/crime/202…

As Hurricane Helene relief rolled out, I embedded with the wide-eyed volunteers trying to help. I hopped on their helicopters, bush planes, ATVs and (almost) their horses. Here's what we saw. Here's what I learned: charlotteobserver.com/news/state/nor…

NEW: When the Tampa Bay Times revealed the state was pursing golf, hotels, pickleball + more on 9 state parks, Florida was stunned. How could officials make plans threatening beloved wild spaces in secret? This is the story of how it happened. w/ Max Chesnes: tampabay.com/news/environme…

BREAKING: Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg has called St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch to inform him the Rays will not meet the March 31 deadline to move forward with a stadium deal. This is a developing story. We'll keep updating. tampabay.com/news/st-peters…

From parks to hurricanes and more, there’s no shortage of Florida environmental news lately Consider supporting our newly formed Tampa Bay Times environment hub 👇 tampabay.com/news/environme…

Happy #EarthDay2025 everyone. Allow me to piggyback on today’s festivities to notify you of an important venture undertaken by the Tampa Bay Times. This spring we’ve created the Environment Hub, a concentration of our environmental reporting into a core coverage area. Why?

So we’ve dedicated a primary team of four reporters and an editor to the Environment Hub: Max Chesnes; Emily L. Mahoney; Jack Prator; Michaela Mulligan and Chris Tisch. Meet them here: tampabay.com/connect-with-u…

Was this Clearwater police detective tipping off drug dealers running a multi-million dollar trafficking operation? Or just trying to build "rapport" with informants? Via Jack Prator tampabay.com/news/crime/202…

There were a lot of moving parts on this story today, but we pulled it all together. Proud of this comprehensive follow-up w/ Jack Prator Michaela Mulligan Alexa Coultoff Tony Marrero Emily Wunderlich Dirk Shadd of Tampa Bay Times tampabay.com/news/breaking-…