[SimpleWeddings]

I have lived in St Pete for about 9 years, and in Shore Acres for the past three.

It is a great neighborhood! But it is an island along the shores of Tampa Bay and is only a few feet above sea level.

It honestly doesn't flood here any worse than anywhere else during a "summer afternoon thunderstorm", and even when it does flood, it tends to be street flooding. Nothing you can;t drive through.

But for some reason, the media comes running here every time we do get some flooding, so there is very much a public perception that is floods here all the time. We have not found that to be the case.

Now, hurricanes are another story. When the big one comes, we will be under water. Period. However, so will everyone else within a few miles of the coast along the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay.

That is the price you pay for living a stones throw from the water!

[tfd]

This may be a late reply, but we have lived in Shore Acres for 2 years. We have only had one incident in which the water was difficult to drive through in a low car. However, the water was only in the streets and a breeze for our SUV. There was actually a hurricane in the gulf at that time, as well.

We are 8 feet above sea level and our house has never flooded in its 60 year history. We love living on an island, and our neighborhood is so peaceful.

Hope you choose to buy here!

[slkuster]

I know this entry is old, but I have lived in the area for the past 45 years. Any area can & will flood often. The trick is to look at the height of the ground is it sea level, or a couple of feet above? In Pinellas Park my parents owned a home on a canal, our side of the canal was a foot higher than the other side of the canal. I used to laugh at all the row boats & canoes sitting on the side of the yards behind my parents house on the other side of the canal. Because of the canal my parents home never flooded, however, I have very vivid memories of wading into the home on foot because the water was still half way up my thigh and it was starting to get dark out. That puts the water at 2'9", the storm had moved by & rain stopped by 3:30PM. So even if you are able to buy a home that does not flood it is a good bet you may not be able to get to it. The home I now own can be approached by 2 streets of 1 major road. 1 of the roads always floods. I am waiting for the day when the main road that hooks up with I75 floods. It always looks like it will, and all the land around it floods, but the road has not. I do have some sage advise about driving in flooded streets - Stick to the high center, always make certain you can see the pavement, Florida has many canals, a majority of which are on each side of the street. Even if you think you know the road well, it is all too easy to walk or drive into one of these canals. You Must abide by this rule in the rain driving over Bridges. Sunshine Skyway is a great example of people saying "the car in front of me just disappeared" right before they drove off the damaged bridge.

[Joe Barfield]

We have lived in Shore Acres since 1986. House was flooded once time during that time. I am told it flooded around '64 also by a neighbor who had been there since '45, so most houses don't flood that often. Streets and yards flood often. Most of this flooding is the City's fault. The original subdivision was built and accepted into the City using the wrong Datum making the land about one foot lowed than it should be. This is why a lot of water comes in. Why it stays in the streets and yards so long is because the City has half the drains at about half the diameter required. Check the as built drawings at the Engineering Dept. to confirm. When Bill Foster was Councilman he pushed to have drainage rectified. Current Councilman in not much from what I am told. Head of Engineering thinks water runs up hill, so he has not provided solutions. Frankly, you are paying high taxes for less than adequate protection by the City. Back to your question the risk of flood exposure and lingering water is very high. Thanks City