Many Tampa Bay drivers are still stranded this week, after Hurricane Helene pounded countless vehicles with water and debris. In a region where nearly three-quarters of all workers rely on cars to get to work, auto shops, tow services and insurance companies have all been inundated with requests.

Trina Winter remembers a time when big storms happened only once every four or five years. But lately, her neighborhood is constantly on edge. “After every flood, we lose a few neighbors,” she said. Those losses mean changes for her community in Tampa’s Sunset Park neighborhood.