Many Pinellas beach residents, businesses resent islands reopening after Helene

PASS-A-GRILLE — Driving through Pinellas beach towns battered by Hurricane Helene feels like something out of an apocalypse movie. There’s a burned-up shell of a Tesla in an otherwise vacant parking lot. A block over, crumpled garage doors and toppled-over fences. In front of most homes, residents have stacked ever-growing piles of flood-ruined furniture high on the curb. Sand dunes as tall as ...