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		<title>Hillsborough Commissioners urge patience on debris pickup</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While it&#8217;s been less than a month since Hurricane Irma&#8217;s strong winds brushed through Florida, Hillsborough County Commissioners are getting an earful from constituents questioning when debris gathered in front of their homes will be picked up. Irma blew over the Tampa Bay area the night of September 10. Just eight days later, two companies hired for debris removal &#8212; AshBritt and Phillips &#38; Jordan &#8212; began the cleanup process. &#8220;My office was originally told it would take 2-3 weeks for&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Irma causes estimated $9 million in Hillsborough property damage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even though Hurricane Irma was &#8220;downgraded&#8221; to a Category 1 storm by the time it ripped through the region last week, it has definitely made a financial impact in Hillsborough County. Preston Cook, Hillsborough County&#8217;s director of emergency management, said Wednesday that while the storm wasn&#8217;t nearly as fierce as initially feared, Irma damaged 287 single family homes, 140 mobile homes and 14 businesses. That adds up to a total of $8.9 million in property damages to date. The estimated&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kathy Castor wants increased federal disaster aid for Florida after Irma</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tampa Democratic Representative Kathy Castor is pressing for an increase in federal disaster aid to the highest share possible to help Floridians recover rapidly from the damage caused by Hurricane Irma. “I intend to be a proactive partner to our local Tampa and Hillsborough County communities to speed recovery,” Castor said in a statement Tuesday. “I will press electric utilities to restore power and ensure that our local partners have the resources to speed debris removal in the short term and&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hillsborough County extends state of emergency for another week</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Gillette]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Hillsborough County Emergency Policy Group has extended the local state of emergency declared last Wednesday regarding Hurricane Irma for an extra seven days. &#8220;Going into the disaster recovery mode, ensuring that the cost and the efforts of the recovery and recoverable &#8230; is much easier to accomplish if the local state of emergency is still in place, &#8220;County Administrator Mike Merrill said Tuesday in announcing how officials with the group came to that conclusion. The other reason is that there&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bob Buckhorn says power restoration is biggest issue for Tampa after Irma</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mayor Bob Buckhorn says restoring electricity to the hundreds of thousands of citizens in Tampa currently without it is issue number one the day after Hurricane Irma barreled through Florida Sunday night. &#8220;It&#8217;s power,&#8221; the mayor told CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Power Lunch&#8221; when asked what was the biggest problem facing his city. &#8220;We know how miserable this place can be for one day without air conditioning, you go two, three, four days and it&#8217;s not going to be very pleasant, so getting&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>River flooding a concern in Hillsborough County after Irma</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill said that while storm surge was the biggest concern of government officials in the Tampa Bay area as Hurricane Irma approached on Sunday, it is now flooding that may be the primary concern. &#8220;With the rainfall, we are going to see some inland river flooding,&#8221; Merrill said Monday morning while speaking at the Hillsborough County Emergency Operation Center in East Tampa, The National Weather Service reported Monday morning that there was actually a negative storm surge (of&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hillsborough officials say people need to be indoors NOW to ride out storm</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Eakins]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hillsborough County officials said Sunday morning that people need to be in place now for what is likely to be a dangerous 20 hours or so with Hurricane Irma slowly moving up the coast of Florida. &#8220;There really is no time left,&#8221; County Administrator Mike Merrill told reporters at the Hillsborough County Emergency Operations Center in East Tampa. Tropical storm winds are expected to hit in Hillsborough by noon, with hurricane type winds (74 miles per hour or more) by&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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