Release updated on July 7 at 07:06 a.m.

The City of St. Petersburg deactivated its Emergency Operations Center at 7 a.m. today, July 7.

Public Safety and City personnel monitored Hurricane Elsa throughout the night and, fortunately, the city received no major impacts. Damage assessment, for both public and private property, will take place as needed, but preliminary assessments do not show any widespread damage or debris at this time. No roads are closed.

There is still a chance for some surge to build in Tampa Bay through the next high tide cycle at noon and cause flooding in low-lying neighborhoods. We will continue to monitor conditions and are standing by if needed to respond and support ground operations.

Also:

• City facilities will remain closed today.
• However, City's Brush Site facilities will be open today from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and will resume normal hours on Thursday.
• There will be limited residential and commercial solid waste collection today due to the Pinellas County Waste to Energy Facility being closed.
• Recycling material will be collected today as scheduled.
• Normal solid waste operations will resume on Thursday.

Release posted on July 5 at 12:47 p.m.

The City of St. Petersburg will offer sandbags at the following locations starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday, July 6th.

• Northeast Park, 875 62nd Avenue NE . (located at the Cardinal Drive entrance to Mangrove Bay Golf Course)
• James "JC" Turner Fields, 643 22nd Avenue S . (located on the south side of Bartlett Park) sandbags will be distributed in the parking lot of the fields.
• Northwest Pool, 2331 60th Street N ., sandbags will be distributed in the pool parking lot.