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I’m kind of glad we didn’t, because they ended up getting, I think, nine tornadoes before the storm had even made landfall,
My mom was driving us, and it was extremely windy, so we were trying to be as cautious as possible,
I had so much going through my head at that point, a storm and my family,
she said in an interview over Zoom Thursday I’m probably going to give him a hard time for being so stubborn,
We couldn’t be prouder of our team. They left their homes and many left their families to be here for our patients and community.”
In a statement Thursday, David Verinder, CEO of Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, said My cheeks hurt because I haven’t stopped smiling. It was great.”
I was very stressed.”
Bennett, the baby’s father, said in an interview Thursday He is a miracle baby,
she said, holding him up as sunshine streamed through her hospital window I was very, very upset that my mom couldn’t stay, because she is my best friend and one of my biggest supporters,
My dad had a massive heart attack because the ambulance could not come out to us during the storm,
The day before, we were both calling the hospital and seeing if there was any way we can just check in,
I just didn’t want to go through what I had to go through with the last hurricane back in 2017,
I was just on my own, by myself, and I was very scared. If I didn’t have the doctors and the nurses that I had, it would have been a whole lot worse,
I really want to thank the residents of the barrier islands for listening to us this time,
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said It’s going to be a long haul for everybody,
said Mayor John Chappie, a seventh-generation resident of Bradenton Beach These things punch you in the gut, but you just pick yourself up,
It’s heart-wrenching to have to keep going through this,
One of the most profound things I’m seeing is the flooding. We have flooding in places and to levels that I’ve never seen, and I’ve lived in this community for my entire life,
City Manager Bill McDaniel said in a video posted online Thursday morning My sense is we will be able to release a lot of the search and rescue resources that we’ve had on hand very soon,
DeSantis said, without providing a specific timeline We do have power outages across about 75% of the county, but we are doing the best we can to assess,