Tampa Mayor Jane Castor warns people against riding out the storm, calling Helene a mere wakeup call. 'If you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you're going to die,' Castor says.
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A direct hit on the bay would be the first since 1921, when the now-sprawling Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area was a relative backwater. Today it is home to more than 3 million people. At 7 p.m. CDT , the eye of the storm was 440 miles southwest of Tampa, moving east-northeast at 10 miles per hour .
Hurricane Helene left the Tampa Bay area more vulnerable when it hit the Gulf Coast’s barrier islands and beaches on Sept. 26, sweeping away tons of sand, knocking down dunes and blowing away dune grass, said Isaac Longley, a meteorologist with the commercial forecasting company AccuWeather.
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