PORT RICHEY, Fla. — Clean-up efforts continue after Hurricane Helene left its mark on the Tampa Bay area.

What You Need To Know

  • Homes along Port Richey's Bay Boulevard were dealing with flooding Friday in the wake of Hurricane Helene

  • The road sits on the west side of U.S. 19, which is in one of Pasco County's evacuation zones
  • For one family, the aftermath may not seem like anything new as Hurricane Helene is now the fourth storm they have been through

In Pasco County, homes were damaged following heavy winds and flooding. One of the areas impacted was Bay Boulevard, where the road was still flooded as of Friday afternoon.

Resident say the water has begun to recede, but they are still dealing with the damage left behind.

“It looked like a bomb went off in here, man. It just looked like a bomb went off," resident Kyle Poulsen said Friday. "All the furniture had floated to the doors, to the entryways."

Poulsen dealing with the clean-up from Hurricane Helene was something he'd gone through before.

“Here we go again,” he says. “Like, here we go again.”

He said Hurricane Helene is now the fourth major storm his family has been through since moving to Port Richey.

“We’ve applied for the grants to either raise the house or build new, and this is just getting old,” Poulsen said.

Just walking through his family’s home, it’s easy to see what Poulsen is talking about. Flood level markings from Helene stain the walls, and furniture is upturned and scattered throughout the house.

“I mean, we put bricks on two of the bookcases and it held them from tipping over," Poulsen said. "Cinder blocks, yeah.”

For now, he said it’s a matter of cleaning up and saving as many precious memories as possible in the process.

“So, we’ll save what we can," he said. "Rinse off what we can, and just toss the rest."