(AP) — Aiden Bowles was stubborn, so even as Florida officials told residents of the barrier island north of St. Petersburg that Hurricane Helene's storm surge ... hit the Tampa Bay area harder ...

Still, his deputies did try to save residents, but the surge forced their boats and vehicles back. The Tampa Bay area has been extremely lucky over the last century. Since the last major storm ...

(AP) — Aiden Bowles was stubborn, so even as Florida officials told residents of the barrier island north of St. Petersburg that Hurricane Helene’s storm surge could be deadly, the retired ...

Bowles and 11 others died as Helene hit the Tampa Bay area harder ... But he drowned in the surge. “It’s really sad to me how he died. He lived a good life. He loved the beach,” Visnick ...

Crews work to clean up the tons of sand and debris pushed onto Gulf Boulevard from Hurricane Helene storm surge, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Indian Shores, Fla. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via ...