Floodlines: Shores Acres residents ponder an uncertain future

Digital marketing consultant Joe Lowery had lived for two years on Helena Avenue NE in St. Petersburg’s Shore Acres neighborhood when Hurricane Helene sent upwards of seven feet of storm surge his way Sept. 26. Like many in Shore Acres, Lowery experienced some minor flooding in previous hurricanes, and assumed that Helene would be the same.

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The roughly 200 people who call St. Petersburg’s Municipal Marina home have lacked electricity for eight days, leaving many to feel abandoned by the city.

What officials have called the city’s “front yard" has a noticeable stench. Trash-mixed seaweed and other debris remained a week after Hurricane Helene brought an over six-foot storm surge to the downtown waterfront.

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