St Pete Beaches After HURRICANE IDALIA | Tour St Pete Beach, Treasure Island, and Madeira Beach
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 13. 09. 2024
- See the conditions along 10 miles of St Pete area beaches just over 24 hours after Hurricane Idalia makes landfall around 150 miles to the northwest near Keaton Beach, FL.
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Thanks for making this storm video. We were able to see our condo in St. Pete beach and know everything was ok! Much appreciated.
Very happy you were able to see your condo in the footage. Overall we were very glad to see the barrier islands were ok here.
That's awesome!
Thank you for this video! We miss St Pete so much (had to leave in 2007 for personal reasons). Weâd be interested in seeing the beaches all the way up to Clearwater (if anyone else is also interested). So happy we found your channel. You make us feel like weâre home again. â€
Miss st petes too
I too miss St. Pete so much. I've lived in places from New York to California and inbetween but the best experience of my life was living in St. Pete. For awhile lived aboard a 45 foot Houseboat which was the BEST EXPERIENCE of my life there. I wish I could do it again but I can't!!
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment, Beverly! We're glad that we were able to show you the northern beaches as well, and to find that they faired quite well overall.
Very well explained video, love the drive along....really shows ya whats it's like ! Thanks !
Thanks, Greg. We're glad ya liked it!
My grandmother lived thier from 1950s to 1990s storms come and go part of living in fla you just have to leave home for the storms .
If you don't live in an evac zone, or a mobile home.....no reason to leave. I've never left in 30 years of living here, never even board up.
You are right, dealing with hurricanes is a part of living in Florida that we have to accept, thanks for watching.
30 hurricane seasons, wow! Very glad you've been alright through all of the storms.
@@Explorcation just gotta roll with the changes, go with the flow.....like anything in life....
@@Explorcation and I remember reading somewhere how the Native Americans blessed this area.....
Hi, thanks again for showing this video. Its great to see the places we know and love relatively in tack after the hurricane. We can't get enough of your channel here in England, looking forward to the next.đ
We were very lucky in this area, thank you so much for watching :)
So happy to see there was no damage on the beaches. Thanks
Same here, Regina!
Thank you for taking the drive and videotaping these beaches.
Our pleasure, Judith. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!
My 85 year old father-in-law lives alone in the Seminole area, we appreciate your usual videos for when we visit, but this content helps us a lot too so we can see what the situation is down there after a storm. Thank you! đ
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment, Erica! We're glad you found these videos to be helpful.
Thanks a lot for the great tour of the St. Pete beaches. I haven't been back for years. BCHS class of 65.
Our pleasure, Mike! Our pleasure. Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment. We hope you're able to make it back for a visit someday!
Thanks for the tour! So glad the damage wasn't severe.
Our pleasure. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment, Carolyn.
Glad to hear you and Jamie are safe. Thank you for the aftermath tour. These intense storms seem to be the norm now all over the country.
Thank you so much. And yes, unfortunately they do. We really hope the trend turns sometime soon.
Thank you for the update! Thankful the area wasnât damaged. My wife and I will be at Landâs End in November and are looking forward to visiting all the great beaches!
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! We hope you have a wonderful time at Land's end in November!
Thanks for the update Skylar. My cousin and her husband live on the bay in Madeira Beach. We've been there many times. A lot of sand but no water in their home. They are counting their blessings. You did a great job sir!
That's great to hear that they didn't have any water in their place. Sand can be annoying, but so much better than water in your home! Thanks for the kind comments, Billy.
I would love to see Indian Rocks Beach after Idalia. Thank you for the update.
We hope you saw our follow up video, Jay.
Thank you for the update! We have good friends who live there so we are happy to know it is pretty good. We'll done!
Thank you so much!
Yes, I loved seeing the beaches and the different eating places at each beach and business maybe places to shop at these beach areas too!
That's great. Thanks for the feedback, Lori!
Thank you so much for the Treasure Island area updateâŠ. My husband and I are scheduled to check in to South Beach Condos on the 16th.
IF you find yourself able to check to beach and the walk from the hotel that would be groovy.
We totally support the loathing for Clearwater driving
Our pleasure. If we find ourselves in that area and are able to check it out we will let ya know. We hope you have a great time in treasure island!
40 yr Pinellas resident here. Thank you for this video. I wanted to check everything out but my truck died after the big down pour at P. Pk Walmart. It was a hard, faat and extremely windy rain fall for around several minutes. Came out, having to tow home. 7 days ago
We're so glad to hear that you were able to explore the area a bit through our video, without even having to leave your home. Thanks so much for the support!
Thanks for posting this.. unfortunately, we had some severe flooding up in Tarpon Springs but luckily our house was spared, I hope all these businesses get up and running soon
We saw some footage from the Tarpon Springs flooding :( we hope everything is cleaned up there soon too.
Good to hear you're both safe! Thanks for update on aftermath.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for the video, this is my family's favorite vacation place for 30 years. Good to see things looking pretty good!
Our pleasure. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment, Jeffrey!
Would love to see Gulfport. Planning on a visit there soon!!! Thanks for your video footage! We really enjoy ALL of them!!
Thank you so much for watching, Patty. We wish we could have found the time to show Gulfport too. We are happy to hear that most of the waterfront establishments are back up and running though.
Thank you for this. Glad everyone is safe. I was worried because I will be in at Pete for vacation in 18 days!!
As long as we don't get hit my another storm before then, St. Pete should be in good shape for your visit. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this update! Perfect
Our pleasure. Thank you for watching!
Thanks for these posts! I need to turn on the Notifications đ
LOL yeah normally we don't post 3 videos in 4 days... but we knew there was a lot of demand to see what the area looked like.
Nice videoâŠthese hurricane videos are good documentation, thanks!
Thank you so much for watching and for taking the time to share this feedback!
I love St Peteâ€â€â€â€ thank you for the video!
Our pleasure. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
Thanks for the video it's good to see the beaches look good and not too much damage,much appreciated
We're glad you enjoyed it, and we were very happy to see the conditions of the beaches too. Thanks for taking the time to comment, Kathy!
Thanks. Saves me several drives.
Our pleasure, William!
Thank you for the update. Our yearly pilgrimage is next week. Glad to see the area and businesses stayed safe and open.
Our pleasure, Chris. We hope this years trip is the best one yet!
Thank you for the update from a long time Snowbird. My 25th year this year and you showed all the beaches that I have spent most of my time at over the years. We started out in pass-a-grille and now we are up in Madeira Beach and you covered it all. Thank you so much
Our pleasure! We're really glad to hear you enjoyed it. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
GREAT video !! Appreciate all your traveling to these locations and showing updates and conditions.
Thank you so much, Lance!
I was really hoping to see where they normally have their Sunday Drum Circle! Really hoping to go back soon!â€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïž
Sorry we weren't able to show that part of the beach. We're guessing it faired well though, as most of St. Pete Beach did from what we've heard. We hope you are able to get back soon!
Great video content.
Seafood Festival coming in October?
At Johnâs Pass.
We are going to find a nice hotel from our home base Clermont, Fla. to explore the food venues.
We invite you guys to share some bread on us in the future.
Stay Safe.
Thank you! The John's Pass Seafood festival is definitely a great event. We got a busy October scheduled, but maybe we'll get a chance to pop in!
Thanks for quickly posting these videos. Glad you are okay and the areas too.
Our pleasure, Carlos. Thank you for watching!
Thanks for sharing Skylar! Amazing content, we live in Lutz and visit Treasure Island often so weâve been curious what it was looking like today. Our family is coming to stay on Treasure Island for their annual trip on Thursday so weâre glad to see KaTiki and Caddyâs holding strong.
Our pleasure. By now it sounds like you guys are in Treasure Island already, and we hope you're having an awesome time! Hoping there's some good backs at KaTiki this weekend!
Great video. Thanks for the your post-hurricane.
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
Cool video, this is exactly what I wanted to see, now I dont have to drive over there to see in person! Love this type of content
We're glad you enjoyed the video and that it saved you some time and mileage on your vehicle!
Thanks for posting. Good to see the area faired reasonably well and that everyone is ok. đđœ All looks beautiful as always. Desperate to return for eating and drinking in our favourites places and also a lot of the ones that you have both shown us. I can almost taste the coconut shrimp and key lime pie! đđ
Thanks for the video, it helps put me at ease!! Can you do Redington Beaches? I'd like to see how those businesses and beaches fared. I saw on Facebook people were saying that the Sea Breeze island grill got flooded.
We did make it up to the Redingtons in our next video, Lori. We hope you were able to watch it!
I was hoping you would take the chance and get out there for this video. Thanks to several of your previous videos, I have visited every place you just highlighted and many more spots along the way. So glad to see the damage was minimal. Here on the East coast and a bit south of you, I was out bike riding in bright sunshine during the storm. I got to experience Andrew and Wilma up close and personal so Iâm never complacent about storms and always prepared. Hardly anyone is out there filming what a near miss looks like so Iâm glad you took the time.
We're glad you appreciate the videos, Bob. Definitely not our normal content... everything is super rushed, and basically just trying to get a somewhat acceptable video up as quickly as possible. Not a whole lot to see on the beaches, but people still like to see for themselves that everything is ok.
Thank you!! â€
Our pleasure!
Thanks so much!! We are counting the days until we will be on all of those beaches for 14 glorious days!! Ka Tiki is our favorite also and within walking distance!! Thanks again Explorcation!!!
Sounds like you all will be in a great spot ..walking distance rom Ka Tiki! We were so glad to see it open so fast :)
I sent your video to my sister in Pinellas Park. She plans to do some reconnaissance at our condo and on that very street!! Thanks again. @@Explorcation
@@screwauger60 YW, we hope you are having a great trip!
Really appreciate you going out and giving updates like this. This puts a detailed perspective on how things really look down there. Relieved this area was not hit as bad as others Northwest. I realize business and home owners lay down roots in these areas knowing these things are always possible but it still tugs on you when something like this has the potential to rip apart your livelihood and home in a snap of a finger. I too am willing to take that risk and my wife and I hope to be property owners somewhere down there very soon! Just can't get enough of the area. Do you all have any idea what Clearwater beach looks like after Idalia? I follow a few FB pages and it looks about the same as St Pete but would love to hear your report as well! Thanks again.
Thanks for watching and for taking the time to write this thoughtful comment, James. You are right, anyone who runs a business or owns property down here is taking a risk, but it is still nerve wracking every time a storm blows through. It's a completely different (less stressful) feeling now that we just rent in the area and no longer own, but owning a home and a business would surely be a whole other level of stress.
Thanks for making this video it actually made me homesick watching it. Even though I'm originally from Minnesota and that's where I live now but I spent 4 wonderful years in this area and I used to hang out at John's Pass a lot. I lived there from 1988 to 1992 and oh man things have changed so much since I was last there 29 years ago. I also used to work at the Mcdonald's in St. Pete Beach right off of gulf blvd that was my first job there. I also had gigs working the deep sea fishing boats at John's Pass too on and off. I also did a couple freelance gigs at the seafood festival they had there at John's Pass. Fun Fact I used to live on the beach in Treasure Island and I only lived on it for about a year maybe then we moved to another place called Paradise island blvd which wasn't very far away but anyways I was about 1/2 a mile from central avenue I think it was back then there was the fun center and Winn Dixie there. Anyways back in 1988 there was a tropical storm named Keith and it was a pretty bad storm and the storm surge I don't think was too bad but I do remember it leaving a 6ft gulley in the beach probably about 3/4 of a mile maybe I think it was close to the bilmar hotel there in Treasure Island. I just want to say that as a teen back then from 14 to 18 I had a blast living there and I do plan on going down there to visit this area again. Sorry for the long post but I have a lot of great memories living in the areas in the video. I also want to say that I'm glad that everyone is safe and there was really no damage from the storm.
Our pleasure, Brett. Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to share your experience. It sounds like you really lead an interesting life and made some amazing memories while living in the area. We hope you are able to make it back down here to visit sooner than later. I'm sure it will be really interesting to see how much everything has changed.
Could you do a video of beaches north of Mad Beach? The beach erosion is tremendous in Indian Rocks Beach, where we live... Half of the beach accesses are closed--the walkways end at 4-6 foot drops where sand used to be. I was surprised to see that the more southern beaches had come through relatively unscathed. Thanks for your informative well-done videos.
I was actually just filming from CWB down to Redington Beach earlier today. I did get out to see some of the beach erosion on Indian Rocks Beach. It will be included in the next video, which I'm working on editing now. Hopefully it will be up sometime tomorrow. Thanks for watching, Charles.
Thank you for the video. We had some coastal flooding in Sarasota County. The parking lot at the South Venice Jetty was extensively damaged.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to share, Francisco! Sorry to hear about that damage to the South Jetty parking lot in Venice. We know exactly the area you are talking about.
Thank you for the updates Skylar! This is by far the best hurricane update video we have seen....so thank you! We'd love to see how AMI is doing after the storm and pray Fort Meyers is ok too.....thank you again for the awesome coverage!
Thank you, Ramune. We were thinking about heading up to do an AMI video, but I just ran out of time (and energy). Thankfully it sounds like they faired pretty well overall too.
Thank you so much for this. We are headed to Madeira Beach on Sunday, happy to see it looks like all is well.
Our pleasure, Peggy. We hope you're having a great time on Madeira Beach!
Thanks for this great video, it was very informative. We are heading down to St. Pete beach on Sunday and it's great to know everything is looking good.
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment. We hope you're having a great time in St. Pete!
Thank you for posting, I have plans to be there in a couple of weeks and this is helpful.
Our pleasure! We're glad you found the video to be helpful. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
Thanks so much for sharing the video and the information đđ€
You are so welcome, thanks for watching!
Thanks so much for doing drive and pass a grille vid. Much appreciated
Our pleasure. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
Thanks so much for posting this (and all your videos)!! I would love to see more of Madeira Beach and the beaches from there to Clearwater Beach. Also, Anna Maria Island. So glad there wasnât a lot of damage in your area!
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! I was just out exploring CWB down to Redington Beach today, and am working on editing that video right now. Hopefully it will be up sometime tomorrow.
@@Explorcation Excellent!! Thank you! You and your lovely wife do an amazing job with the channel. (We hope sheâs feeling well!) Weâve been enjoying your channel for some time and look forward to visiting the area soon. đđ
@@kanenomoja thank you so much for your kind comment, Jamie is doing well, she just had to work and couldn't come out to film during the week this time. We hope you get to visit the area in the near future!
@@Explorcation Glad to hear Jamie is well!! (Long story, but I can relate.).
Weâre actually here, now.
I want to thank you so much for your videos!! Weâve been using many of them as guides and theyâve been super helpful!
We had a great lunch at Tide Tables the other day, a fabulous dinner at the Oak and Stone (loved the beer walk!), two wonderful afternoons on Bridge Street and the St. Petersburg PierâŠ.among several other great spots - all thanks to you and Jamie!!
Weâre having a wonderful trip. Thanks so much!! (Iâd write more, but Iâm running out of exclamation pointsâŠđ.) You guys are awesome!
You both be well, keep having fun making the stellar content, and weâll keep watching! đđ€đ€đđđ
@@kanenomoja thank you so much for coming back to comment on the places you've enjoyed. We do love to hear everyone's favorite spots! I can't recall how long you were going to be here, but if you are still here, enjoy the rest of your trip and if you've gone home, we hope you make it back soon đ
Thank you for this. We go to treasure Island at the end of September.
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment. We love Treasure Island and hope you have a wonderful time on your visit!
Thanks again! Great coverage!
Thank you for watching again!
Thanks for the video! I have a trip planned next Saturday to st Pete beach and was a bit worried about the area!
Our pleasure, Dawn. We hope you have a great trip!
Oops ?!
Johnâs Pass Seafood Festival
January 19, 2024.
Excited.
Thanks for sharing this info! It's a great event.
You may want to have a look at Clearwater Beach north to Tarpon Springs. Marker 1 Marina in Dunedin had some serious damage to the wet slips.
We wish we would have had some extra time to get a little further north and check out the Palm Harbor, Dunedin, and Tarpon areas. We heard they got it a little bit worse than we did down here.
Thank goodness you were not here for landfall! It was 6+ foot surge on Pass A Grille Beach....
I love Pass A Grille
It really is a unique and special place!
glad you guys and everything is ok
thank you so much đ
Oh wow will I'm glad everything was ok đ I just live in the Tarpon Springs area the Sponge docks were flooded
Yeah we saw some footage of the area and it looked like the water got pretty high there. Hoping the damage wasn't to severe.
Thanks for the update. Your content is appreciated. Good to know you guys are well. Can you please show clear water beach also?
I just got back from filming Clearwater Beach down to Redington Beach. Hoping to have that video up sometime tomorrow!
Thanks for this video. My familyâs condo is right behind the Beach Mart there at 5:32. Was curious to see the condition of St Pete Beach/Gulf Blvd.
Our pleasure, Cameron! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
Hey guys! Thanks so much for this video. My other half and I always vacation in St. Pete every year for our anniversary, but havenât been back since 2018 due to family matters. Our favorite spot was Bongoâs at the Grand Plaza now called the Bellweather. Iâd love to know if those beach bars are holding up ok. We love you! âđŒâ€ïž
Ahhh yeah Bongos is great. Nothing we love more than dinner/drinks with our feet in the sand! We didn't see Bongos first hand, but from what I've heard they are doing fine and are open for business.
Good video đ
Thanks, Ultan!
He talks about the tides...it was ROUGH!! Didn't go down until 12 pm.... 8 hours of SURGE!
good infođ
Glad it was helpful!
I always wonder if the Candy Kitchen makes it thru ... I worked there WAY back in the day and its been there for so long I hate to see it damaged. It still looks like it did in the 70's !
I just got back from touring CWB down to Redington Beach. Candy Kitchen is good to go!
We dodged a bullet for sure! (Bradenton) Thanks for your great videos!
we sure did, thanks for watching :)
hope this helps, raw footage I shot from the interception of Idalia. Thanks for the support!!
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yall wow! thanks for the support!!!!
I was saying the same.... thank goodness we made it out!
So glad to hear that you two are safe! đ Thanks for the tour. Do you know how Anna Maria and Bradenton/Palmetto are doing? The news reports werenât very clear. đ€
Thank you so much! From what we've heard Anna Maria and Bradenton/Palmetto faired well, but we haven't had a chance to get down there to see for ourselves yet.
Thanks for the update. Any word on Fort DeSoto? Thanks!
Our pleasure. From what I've heard, Ft Desoto faired well.
Thanks for these videos. I'm going to the Gulf Coast in mid-October, including Fort De Soto Beach and Siesta Key) so this is very helpful. Do you happen to know what the situation is in Crystal Springs with the manatees?
Our pleasure! We've heard that the Manatee tour with the Plantation at Crystal River is going. That's the one we would recommend!
â@@ExplorcationAwesome. Thank you!
We are heading to the rumfish resort on the 7th. Do you thibk they will be all ok with the cleanup?
Yes, I think you should be good to go.
â€thank thank you for showing us just wondering what does the college's look like
Thank you for watching, Cindy! Perhaps next time St. Pete experiences flooding we'll check out the USF St. Pete area.
Fort DeSoto and Anna Maria beaches would be nice to see.
Thank you for the suggestions. Unfortunately I ran out of time and energy, but from what I've heard both places are in pretty good shape.
If you get a chance, I'd love to see how Gulfport is doing. They had a lot of flooding around the Casino, from photos I saw online.
I second this since we have some time planned in Gulfport to see Dead Set!!
Gulfport was on our list, but I just ran out of time/energy. It sounds like everything is pretty much back to normal there now, so there wouldn't be much of anything to show. We're happy to hear that they were still able to do Geckofest that weekend! We love that event.
You really needed to look south of Caddy's on Sunset Beach. The beach and access are destroyed and there is unbelievable erosion. Hubbard's Marina at John's Pass Village was full of sand. You didn't go there when visiting the Village. The beaches are small because of a loss of sand and .any dunes were damaged.
Thanks for sharing this info, John.
We come to Madeira often will be there in two weeks can you give suggestions for St . Pete and Madeira for good seafood and live music if you of great places to eat that not necessarily seafood that would be great !
There area so many great seafood places in that area. The Helm on St. Pete Beach is amazing. They have the best shecrab soup. We love Dockside Daves in Madeira for seafood too. They have an amazing grouper sandwich and seafood bisk. We love Ka'Tiki on Treasure Island for live music and Saltwater Hippie on Madeira for live music.
I like beach
You and us both!
Can you (Explorcation) or someone confirm the beach situation on Pass-a-grille. I spend a lot of time on the north end where the public beach starts. It looks like there was a lot of beach erosion. Was it high tide when you shot the video or was there a 10 - 15 yard loss of beach due to erosion?
It was almost exactly between high and low tide when I was filming in the Pass A Grille area. Definitely some erosion, but not sure of the significance.
Caddy's looked a little rough there
Yeah, but they had quite a few people working on cleaning it up. I'm guessing by now it's looking significantly better!
How did Doc Fords do, dry and open?
We're not sure which one you are talking about, but as far as we are aware the Doc Fords on the pier faired well and is open.
How did Honeymoon Island state park weather the storm?
We heard they faired pretty well, but have not had a chance to get up there to see first hand yet. Thanks for watching.
Drunken Clam across from Public Beach Access suffer any damage? St. Pete Beach.
Can't say for sure, but we'd be surprised if they did.
Could you check out the Armands Circle area and AnnaMaria Island areasâ€
Hey Gene. After attempting to make three of these videos in three days, I'm thoroughly exhausted... if I do get around to making another one it probably will be of the islands in the Sarasota area, but if I decide to I'm gonna need a few days rest firstđ
Great, how about Gulfport?
Unfortunately we didn't get a chance to drive through Gulfport, but from what I've seen the majority of the waterfront businesses (if not all of them) are back open for business.
Anyone have any news on Egmont Key and Passage. Can't find any info
We haven't heard anything either other than most of the Ferry tours to Egmont being back up and running.
How did passe grille fair ?
Good. It's the first place we showed in the video.
What about IRB?
It will be included in the next video which I'm working on editing right now. Hopefully that one will be up sometime tomorrow.
We were lucky,nothing happened in pinellas county.
We really did luck out, Amanda.
Gulfport got hit fairly hard
Yeah, I think the had some of the worst flooding in the St. Pete metro.
You might want to advise that confidence after hurricane season is past. đ
The confidence about having a nice vaca down here was for the very short term... beyond a couple weeks or so is a whole other story. Maybe shoulda clarified that in the video đ
Can you show bradenton beach
Unfortunately we won't have time to do any more of these beach tour videos in the near future, as we have other videos planned that we have to work to get out. If we do get any more hurricanes that effect the area this year (praying we don't), we'll do our best to get up to Anna Maria and tour the Bradenton Beach area.
@Explorcation ok thank you đ đ âșïž
I probably have to pay for this and am not even near this places if only rich can afford to live by the ocean well let them be for the rest just a dream is a reality
It really is getting hard for most people to afford. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment.
Tour Isle of PalmsâŠ.4th StreetâŠ.
Thanks for the suggestion, Gail. I think we're done with the tour videos at least for the time being, but if we do get out to do another one, I'll try to check out that area.
More storms on the way.
Hopefully nothing to severe!
Good thing they didn't waste money on beach renourishment this year. I bet those dumb property owners give the army Corp the right to do it now.