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1891 Clearwater incorporates. 1892 St. Petersburg incorporates. [4]: 60 1893 St. Petersburg's first bank organized. [4]: 61 1894 Hillsborough Times moves from Clearwater to St. Petersburg and is renamed The St. Petersburg Times. [4]: 62 1895 St. Petersburg prohibits cows with bells from wandering within town limits.
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The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
Hurricane Andrew causes $25.5 billion in damage (1992 USD, $39.2 billion 2008 USD) in south Florida and 15 direct deaths. At the time, Andrew was the costliest North Atlantic hurricane in the history of the United States, though has since dropped to eighth after Hurricanes Katrina, Ike, Irma, Maria, Sandy, Ida and Harvey. [65] [66]
The 1848 Tampa Bay hurricane (also known as the Great Gale of 1848) was the strongest known hurricane to impact the Tampa Bay area of the U.S. state of Florida.Along with the 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane and Hurricane Milton in 2024, it is one of only three major hurricanes to make landfall along Central Florida's west coast since Florida became a United States territory in 1821.
Pinellas County Schools to relocate 2,000 students this week, 2 schools damaged in hurricane Damages can also be reported locally through Disaster.Pinellas.gov . Nearly 13,000 people have applied ...
Hurricane Milton’s landfall was moved up substantially. It was originally forecast for the overnight hours, but it is now expected to be around 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. It’s projected to hit the coast ...
Assuming this timeline holds, hurricane force winds — close to the center of Milton — can be expected by late morning along the coastal areas of Tampa Bay and early afternoon inland.