Hurricane Helene to keep Tampa Bay area schools closed Friday
With the worst of Hurricane Helene yet to impact the Tampa Bay region early Thursday, area school districts announced they would remain closed on Friday. Officials said the extra time off will allow them to clear campuses that have been used as evacuation shelters,and to assess and fix storm damage.
Skyway Bridge closed as Helene’s impacts worsen around Tampa Bay
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge is closed, as of just before 2 p.m. on Thursday, as outer bands from Hurricane Helene, now a Category 3 hurricane churning in the Gulf of Mexico on its way to landfall in the Big Bend area, bear down on the Tampa Bay area with tropical storm-force winds.
As it turned out, Hurricane Helene has become a wild card in the National League wild-card race. Helene is forecast to ...
Duke Energy staged 8,000 crew members to respond to outages ahead of the storm, with about 4,000 in the Villages that can ...
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Hurricane Helene is unleashing its fury on Florida with landfall in the coming hours as a major hurricane along the Gulf ...
Helene is expected to make landfall in the Florida Big Bend region Thursday night before moving inland at a fast pace across the Southeast.
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The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on ...
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