Dam It Defense Receives Community Partnership Award | Holmes Beach News, Community Flood preparedness panel at Holmes Beach City Hall, Anna Maria Island. We did not start Dam It Defense to win awards. We started it because our own homes flooded during Hurricane Helene in 2024 and we knew that too many Gulf Coast homeowners […]
If you live in St. Petersburg, Tampa, or anywhere along the sun-drenched (and water-prone) coast of Florida, you know the drill. When hurricane season kicks off, we start eyeing the tropics, checking our flashlights, and wondering if this is the year the “Big One” pushes the Gulf into our living rooms. But there is a
If you live in St. Petersburg, you know the drill. The sky turns a certain shade of bruised purple, the local news starts tracking a tropical depression in the Gulf, and suddenly, the line for free sandbags at Lake Maggiore or the Northeast Park wraps around the block. You spend hours in the Florida humidity,
