{"id":252080,"date":"2024-06-04T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-homeowner-mutiny-leaving-florida-vulnerable-to-hurricanes\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T11:25:25","slug":"the-homeowner-mutiny-leaving-florida-vulnerable-to-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-homeowner-mutiny-leaving-florida-vulnerable-to-hurricanes\/","title":{"rendered":"The homeowner mutiny leaving Florida vulnerable to hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Lisa Hendrickson is almost out of sand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Hendrickson is the mayor of Redington Shores, Florida, a well-heeled beach town in Pinellas County. Her town occupies a small section of a razor-thin barrier island that stretches down the western side of the sprawling Tampa Bay metro area, dividing cities like Tampa and St. Petersburg from the Gulf of Mexico. Many of her constituents have an uninterrupted view of the ocean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The town\u2019s only protection from the Gulf of Mexico\u2019s increasingly erratic storms is a pristine beach that draws millions of tourists every year \u2014 but that beach is disappearing fast. A series of storms, culminating in last fall\u2019s Hurricane Idalia, have eroded most of the sand that protects Redington Shores and the towns around it, leaving residents just one big wave away from water overtaking their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">This perilous&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/extreme-weather\/redington-shores-tampa-florida-beach-erosion-hurricanes\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Hendrickson is almost out of sand. Hendrickson is the mayor of Redington Shores, Florida, a well-heeled beach town in Pinellas County. Her town occupies a small section of a razor-thin barrier island that stretches down the western side of the sprawling Tampa Bay metro area, dividing cities like Tampa and St. Petersburg from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":252081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The homeowner mutiny leaving Florida vulnerable to hurricanes - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/extreme-weather\/redington-shores-tampa-florida-beach-erosion-hurricanes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The homeowner mutiny leaving Florida vulnerable to hurricanes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lisa Hendrickson is almost out of sand. 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