TAMPA, Fla. — Counties and cities across the Tampa Bay area have started opening up sandbag locations ahead of Hurricane Idalia’s arrival. In some spots, you might still have to fill your own bags.

That empty glass wine bottle or pasta sauce jar sitting in your kitchen could become sand used in sandbags to protect against flooding thanks to a new partnership between Lafayette Consolidated ...

Across Florida, residents are rushing to fill sandbags and haul them back to their homes in the hopes of keeping the floodwaters out before Hurricane Milton brings a 12-foot storm surge and up to 15 ...