Last Friday, the National Guard was deployed to help with rescues in Tampa’s Davis Island, which was just one of many Bay area neighborhoods that saw record storm surge leave streets and homes underwater.
On the islands, WTSP says up to eight feet of storm surge brought the ocean into homes including on on Blanca Avenue where the TV station said saltwater damage to a Tesla’s lithium-ion battery could be to blame for a house fire that did not injure anyone.
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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...
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