Residents of Florida's Gulf Coast are digging out from mountains of sand after Hurricanes Helene and Milton clobbered them with back-to-back hits in less than two weeks.

Barry broke up around 4 a.m. Monday about 100 miles northwest of Tampico, Mexico, near where the storm had made landfall about six hours earlier.

Storm surge as high as 10 feet swept mountains of sand into communities — in some areas, 5 feet tall or higher. The fine, white sand helps make Florida’s beaches among the best in the world.

Scott Bennett, a contractor who specializes in storm recovery, uses a skid steer to remove sand around 1.5 meters deep from the patio of a beachfront condominium in Venice, Fla., following the ...

BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — When a hurricane sets its sights on Florida, storm-weary residents may think of catastrophic wind, hammering rain and dangerous storm surge. Mounds of sand ...