ST PETERSBURG, Fla. — One month after Hurricane Milton made landfall, communities from Pass-a-Grille Beach to Madeira Beach are still working to recover from the storm surge and flooding that impacted communities around Tampa Bay. 

What You Need To Know

  • Pass-A-Grille has made progress clearing piles and piles of debris

  • Many people have returned to the beach, though they share the area with bulldozers redistributing sand 

  • Treasure Island remains overwhelmed by dirt, which is piled up street-side and even inside houses

  • Madeira Beach showed pockets of significant damage

  • BELOW: See satellite images from after Helene and Milton

Here are the main things that stood out:

Pass-A-Grille Beach

In early November, numerous debris piles lined the road in Pass-A-Grille Beach. Collections of furniture, electronics and trash overwhelmed the streets.

By the middle of the month, crews had made significant progress clearing some of the trash piles and yard waste out of the area.

Bent road signs and other debris were examples of the storm’s surge and wind.

St. Pete Beach

Despite the damage, there are still many people enjoying St. Pete Beach, although they shared the area with giant piles of sand that bulldozers were redirecting.

At the nearby Don Cesar, yellow tubing hung off the giant resort building. The tubes were part of dehumidifiers, dealing with dampness inside.

There are numerous beachside businesses with damage to their main signage. Plenty of others had piled up items outside that had gotten water-logged from flooding.

Treasure Island

One thing stood out on Treasure Island: Dirt.

Dirt was piled up alongside roads. Paved roads had become dirt roads. Dirt was even still collecting inside people’s houses at the front doors.

Treasure Island arguably had the most difficult streets in the weeks following Hurricane Milton.

Madeira Beach

The damage remained striking, moving north to Madeira Beach.

Portions of sea wall had been wrecked, power lines were left in tatters, and there were houses and sheds where it seemed like Helene and Milton were bowling balls that battered buildings.