Gov. Ron DeSantis was speaking at Manatee Memorial Hospital Monday. He said there are ways to mitigate flooding from major storms. “If you had the Tiger Dams in some of these areas that are low lying, like we were in Pasco right on the water, the water went up three, four feet. You have the Tiger Dam and you don’t get any intrusion into your home or very minima. That is a huge huge difference,” DeSantis said.
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A convoy of ambulances started moving patients out of a Florida hospital that’s in a mandatory evacuation zone because of Hurricane Helene. Pinellas County is vulnerable to storm surge that could be life-threatening with this storm. Find out how this hospital is working to keep the families of patients informed about where their loved ones are.
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A convoy of ambulances started moving patients out of a Florida hospital that’s in a mandatory evacuation zone because of Hurricane Helene. Pinellas County is vulnerable to storm surge that could be life-threatening with this storm. Find out how this hospital is working to keep the families of patients informed about where their loved ones are.
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Tiger Dams™ can be used to protect against more then just flooding. This protective capacity means that the Tiger Dams can be used for a variety of purposes: protecting a crew repairing a bridge, storing clean drinking water safely, diverting water from one area to another like an irrigation channel, or simply protecting a critical area.
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Tiger Dams, graciously on loan from the Florida Department of Emergency Management, has been a game-changer in keeping the Hart Springs Campground office from flooding.
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Tiger Dams, graciously on loan from the Florida Department of Emergency Management, has been a game-changer in keeping the Hart Springs Campground office from flooding.
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Crews have restored over 320,000 customers’ electricity across Florida using Tiger Dams since Tropical Storm Debby, briefly a hurricane, impacted the state over the weekend and into Monday morning, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office said.
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NEW:
@GovRonDeSantis
announced this morning that FL & partners are deploying flood control devices as pictured below around utility substations. Such barriers have also historically been used for hospitals & schools. This will help keep many w/ power throughout TS Debby.
his Atlantic hurricane season and ahead of Hurricane Debby, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration applied a tactic more commonly used for hospitals and schools to electrical substations: surround them in portable Tiger Dam flood barriers.
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BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis says flood barriers erected around utility substations “have successfully protected” them from stormwater damage.”Probably would have had more [without power] without that.”
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