Pinellas County, Florida, is on a peninsula on Florida’s west coast, across Tampa Bay from the city of Tampa. Hurricane Helene hit Pinellas County pretty hard, and many residents and state workers were left with a lot of storm debris to clean up. There was just one problem: the Pinellas County landfill announced it wouldn’t be open to accepting storm debris.
As people in Pinellas County line the streets with piles of debris, where will it all go?
“It put everything to a screeching halt,” Farmhand Hauling & Property Maintenance Owner TJ Rutherford said.
“It will take weeks, if not months to clear the debris,” Barbra Hernandez, the Director of Communications for Pinellas County said Friday morning.
Pinellas County’s main dump is now not accepting storm debris.
Governor Ron DeSantis said, “Oh, yeah?” And now, the Pinellas County landfill is back open to storm debris.
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