As Hurricane Helene southern Europe’s over quake left six dead and three million people without power, according to a startling picture that shows cars driving in the middle of massive flooding on the Howard Frankland Bridge gate in Tampa, Bay, Florida.
Meteorologist Merry Matthews posted a video on X, previously Online, of cars continuing to pull on a gate in Tampa Bay, Florida, on Thursday despite significant flooding the bridge was causing by Hurricane Helene. ” Storm Surge at Howard Frankland Bridge in Tampa Bay”, Matthews tweeted. They kept this gate closed for far too much. Wow! It has since been closed”.
Jeff Butera, a Bay News 9 outlet, even shared a picture of cars passing by the Howard Frankland Bridge in Tampa Bay. He remarked,” I’m shocked they have n’t closed the Howard Frankland Bridge in Tampa Bay” before the bridge closure.
In response to the movie, one person wrote,” Who in their right mind would be out driving in this wind. I would certainly not cross that bridge. Another person said,” The bigger question is why people are driving on a bridge during a life storms in the hot zone,” but that’s one thing. However, a third person argued that one “dropped the basketball” on closing the Tampa Bay gate.
Almost a half hours after posting the film, Butera shared an upgrade regarding the gate, saying,” Closed then — closed about 30 mins after I posted”.
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According to The New York Post, Hurricane Helene made land at about 11: 10 p. m. in Florida on Thursday. The hurricane was categorized as a main Category 4 wind, according to The Associated Press, and forecasters warned that it could “nightmare” storm surge the southeast of the country.
The hurricane was downgraded to a tropical cyclone early on Friday morning by the National Hurricane Center. According to The New York Post, about three million people were without electricity as a result of the storm and six proved fatalities.
In a Friday night update, Gov. According to Ron DeSantis (R-Fla. ), state personnel carried out “hundreds of search and rescue missions” and assisted in “hundreds of other search and rescue missions” in the “immediate aftermath of Hurricane Helene.”
Over a million records in the state are without electricity, but over a million have already been restored owing to solutions created prior to the storm, according to DeSantis. 61 FDOT personnel have been conducting” slice and toss businesses” since 3 AM. Over 2, 000 km of roadway have been cleared, and these businesses continue”.
