Mayor Jane Castor is ushering in the holidays with a Thanksgiving week message of gratitude, reflection and recovery as the city continues to recover from last year’s hurricanes and prepares for the holidays.

In an email to residents, Castor recalled the damage left by Hurricanes Helene and Milton and praised the community’s resilience as the 2025 hurricane season comes to an end.

“This Thanksgiving week, I can’t help but feel a little extra gratitude as I think back to where we were this time last year,” Castor said in the email. “The holiday decorations going up in neighborhoods still marked by flood debris. Families trying to salvage what they could while figuring out where to celebrate Thanksgiving. The exhaustion in people’s eyes when you asked how they were doing.”

“This Sunday

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