Shore Acres residents launch home dam company following severe flooding from Helene

A Shore Acres homeowner turned a personal disaster into a business venture, creating custom flood barriers to protect local properties after surviving Hurricane Helene.St. Petersburg home flood barriersShore Acres resident Danny Fustar and his business partner created "Dam It Defense" shortly after Hurricane Helene flooded Fustar's home in three and a half feet of floodwater. Fustar said the system operates similarly to an AquaFence, using aluminum materials and can be built up to 10 feet high to guard garages, windows, doors or whole properties."The system that you see at Tampa General is very similar to this system, made of the same grades of aluminum. We kind of have found the solution for the residential side where they found the solutions for the commercial and large-scale side. Although we're delving into that as well now," said Fustar.Depending on the scope of the project, installation costs range between $500 and $3,000, with at least 40 homeowners in the Shore Acres neighborho