TAMPA, Fla. – As Hurricane Helene approaches, crews work fast to build a wall against the storm at Tampa General Hospital, which is right on the Hillsborough Bay.
Dustin Pasteur, the vice president of facilities at TGH, said it takes 60 people and three full days to set up the wall called “AquaFence.” It’s nine feet high and 1,000 feet long, stretching around the entire TGH facility on Davis Islands.
It’s designed to hold back a 15-foot storm surge, which might be expected from a direct hit by a Category 3 hurricane.
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“We’re a 100-year-old hospital, and we’re right here on the bay. We can’t evacuate,” said Pasteur. “There are not enough hospital beds in the region to take our patients.”…