Tampa Bay is unrecognizable. Once a postcard-perfect escape, now buried in sand and debris. Homes, streets, and memories—gone. People gut their houses, businesses fight to survive. This isn't just about rebuilding—it's about survival.
#HurricaneHelene
#Flwx
#TampaBay
#sunsetbeach
UPDATE: Hundreds of cars stranded on I-80 near the Donner Summit…blizzard winds and heaviest snow of the storm starting. It’s a race to see if they can clear the interstate before cars get too buried.
@bclemms
#california
#snow
#blizzard
#donnerpass
#CAwx
I am not in an evacuation zone in St Petersburg and no storm surge would reach my neighborhood but I am sending my wife to the airport with all our important documents. A possibility exists that Pinellas County will be cut off into two islands by the surge.
#Milton
#TampaBay
Main Street in Hillsborough. 360 degree devastation from
#HurricaneBeryl
It was the most intense hurricane of my life and basically everyone else here on
#CarriacouIsland
I will be sharing their stories later this evening on my YT channel.
Courtney’s home is completely gone, but her tears this morning were for her missing dog. Soon after I spotted the dog running around and we were able to reunite them!
#barnsdall
#tornado
A fleet of ambulances evacuating this Pinellas County Hospital that sits in Zone A (very susceptible to storm surge) Also, a large water dam is being set up around the building
#BREAKING
#Evacuations
#Helene
#FLwx
Every turn I make in
#Carriacou
, I know it won’t ever look the same in just a few hours. Trying to document as much as possible before
#HurricaneBeryl
rips through.
@bclemms
and I will be here through the storm to tell the stories.
Scary night, tornado ripped through Barnsdall, OK, and when we arrived on scene had to help a family to safety after they escaped their collapsed home. Search and rescue is ongoing.
#tornado
#OKwx
Talking with survivors of last night’s tornado as their family bible is found un-damaged in their destroyed home, for the second time in 3 years.
#tornado
#kentuckytornado
These
#bucees
employees in Freeport, TX, earning their paycheck, re-wrapping gas station pumps in the outer eyewall of
#HurricaneBeryl
Still open for business too!
#txwx
@bclemms
Incredible how many folks in
#Carriacou
have seen my reporting, made them re-think the severity of
#Beryl
before the storm so they prepared more, and now we can help them make the first contact to the outside world. I am proud to be an independent journalist.
@bclemms
One other thing I did, I went around my house to video everything just in case I need it for an insurance claim. Doubt I will be home until after the storm because I will be working but hoping for the best for our area.
#milton
Insane rainfall rates in the heart of this flash flood emergency in Hallandale Beach. US 1 is a canal and streets and avenues west are worse.
#flwx
@NWSMiami
Several inches of water in homes in Hallandale Beach. Many just fixed their homes after last years big flood. They say this one is worse.
#flwx
@NWSMiami
Update from
#Carriacou
We have made it around the entire island. We are sharing our
@Starlink
WiFi around to every spot so people can make first contact with family. 2 people at least were killed by
#Beryl
on the island
I will have a full update on my YouTube this evening.
Small signs of hope in Greenfield. A rainbow in the sky over a basement that was the refuge that saved the lives of two families with young children.
#iowa
#tornado
#Greenfield
It’s 9:51 in Carriacou. Ears are popping a little, definitely sustained tropical storm force winds and soon we will be seeing hurricane force. Small debris is already flying.
#beryl
@BooConley
Because the county could be cut off by storm surge. Add onto that power outages, no water, large trees…it’s not worth it. I do this for a living, that’s the only reason I am here.
Shame on
@AP
This is their attitude towards
@bclemms
and I risking our own lives to show the world what happened in
#hurricaneberyl
on
#carriacou
They can use the “share” button like any other ethical person to spread the word. Or maybe their billion dollar business should
Gas lines and water is flying off the shelves in
#TampaBay
ahead of what is likely going to be a very impactful
#hurricane
to the west coast of Florida, including potentially the Tampa Bay area.
#PTC9
Just spoke with the Prime Minister of Grenada. He is on the ground in
#Carriacou
to do an assessment and says aid will begin arriving in earnest tomorrow.
#Beryl
Around 20 boats floated hundreds of yards over a parking lot, wall, 4 lane road, before stacking up against homes in Treasure Island, FL. The impacts from
#HurricaneHelene
in
#TampaBay
are insane. Storm was 100 miles away in the gulf.
#FLwx
@Austin_Freud1
@bclemms
I helped the couple that lived here out of the rubble…they built that concrete shelter in their basement after the 2021 tornado in Dawson Springs, and it likely saved their life.
#tornado
#kentuckytornado
A new
#flashflood
crossed over I-10 near Bob Hope Drive by Thousand Palms, CA. We had to wake up dozens of drivers asleep, stranded on the side of the road as they were being flooded. Police were diverting people onto the interstate into this.
#TropicalStormHilary
@bclemms
Shame we won't have
@clarissaward
on the ground any longer. I admire everything about her reporting, from her courage and honesty. She shows us all what journalism can and should be.
Here is a quick preview of what I am seeing on the ground in
#MarshHarbour
the
#bahamas
Please share so some of the families of people I interviewed might recognize them and get some relief from the uncertainty! Thank you!
@accuweather
@breakingweather
This is one of the worst hit spots in
#MarshHarbour
Locals say it's called the "Mud" and that it has a large population of Hatian immigrants. Hopefully they evacuated to a shelter bc the damage is catastrophic there.
#TheBahamas
@accuweather
@breakingweather
Remember the Capital One Tower in
#HurricaneLaura
getting shredded back in 2020 in Lake Charles? It’s still just patched up, and is set for demolition. These hurricanes leave scars for years. Nearly to
#Texas
for
#HurricaneBeryl
I just spoke with a group of high schoolers from
#Omaha
who were visiting
#Fremont
for a college visit, stuck all weekend until they caught a ride with a volunteer pilot back home. This is what they saw from above.
#Nebraskaflood
@accuweather
is on a flight there now.
Here is the last look at paradise before it’s lost. The people of
#carriacou
shared how they are feeling, and preparing for
#Beryl
Directly in the path of Hurricane Beryl: Carriacou's Last Day of Calm