It doesnt take much for parts of Tampa Bay to flood. Sometimes just a thunderstorm or high tide can be enough to drench neighborhoods .Yet, officials in Redington Beach in Pinellas County are on a mission to alleviate flooding in their beachfront community.

Crews from Seminole Septic and Wind River Environmental are on a mission to flush out every major storm drain in Redington Beach.

With the help of a robotic camera, theyre getting an inside look at the pipes that connect drains in neighborhoods to the intracoastal.

Often times, crews find natural causes that back up storm drains like oyster shells. However, its the other debris theyre finding now that is becoming a cause for concern including nearly 30 sand bags (likely from past storms), a personal tool kit, chunks of concrete and sprinkler heads.

Town Commissioner Richard Cariello hopes the inspection will help them figure out why the water on city streets is slow to recede after a storm, and now he also hopes it sends a message about the importance of keeping debris out of the drains.

Its a two phase operation : #1 protecting our residents, their homes and also #2 protecting the environment by protecting the town from being flooded and that debris washing into intracoastal, he explained.

Cariello hopes everyone will be more careful to make sure items arent washed or thrown into storm drains.

Consider the system throughout your town or city like the drain you have in your house. Youre careful about what you drop in your sink and about the debris you allow down the sink. The storm system is the same thing except on a larger scale, he explained.

Redington Beach resident Vladimir Tchentsov has bad memories of Tropical Storm Eta, which flooded several parts of Pinellas County, including his neighborhood.

It was horrible and completely unexpected because it was the end of hurricane season, he explained.

Tchentsov said he was lucky and happened to be the only home in the neighborhood that didnt flood but most neighbors had feet of water inside their properties. You could have driven a boat down our street, he added.

Tchentsov is glad to see the drains he and his neighbors rely on are getting a clean sweep.

Once crews are done cleaning and inspecting the stormwater drains, the town will add new wastop inline check valves on outfall pipes to keep saltwater from backing up into neighborhoods during high tide and storms. Tchentsov hopes it will make a difference during the next storm. Any help is great, even just a little help, he said.

The calendar might say November but at Madeira Beach Fundamental it's "Shoe-vember."

The students are collecting new or gently used shoes to donate to kids in the area who need them.

"It makes me feel good on the inside because I'm able to help other kids that are less than fortunate me," explains student Fenix White.

It's the 10th year of this campaign and three nearby schools feel the benefits.

Linda Beaver took charge after seeing first how great the need is here.

"I actually walked into a school to donate some clothes. And I saw the shoes on the kids' feet. So after our last liaison left, I just thought it was up to somebody to take it over to make sure some of these kids have new shoes every year," explains Beaver.

The school will collect shoes all this month. They're ready after their success from "Sock-tober."

"It's crazy because like in one week if we can get 1000 socks, what could we have done? If we did it for the whole month?" says student Ethan Bess.

The 7th graders here donated socks to veterans and crushed their goals.

"That's one of the key things that homeless individuals need first, ARE socks. They're really getting at the heart of taking care of the less fortunate in the community," says Carol Barkalow with Heaven on Earth for Veterans."I truly applaud the teacher in the school and the kids for making such a difference in our community."

A project to renourish nine miles of Pinellas Countys beachfront is being pushed back.

Nathan Hallsten and his family live near Indian Rocks Beach, so they visit as often as possible.

The sands really nice and its always clean and the sunrises and sunsets are always good, Hallsten said.

The beautiful white sandy beaches we all enjoy, are in jeopardy of shrinking.

A $45-million project to widen the 9-mile stretch of sand, between Clearwater and Redington Beach was supposed to take place in 2024. This renourishment project happens every six years.

Its much further behind in the process. So, it would be very difficult to meet those deadlines, said Dr. John Bishop, Pinellas County Coastal Management Coordinator.

Thats because only 48% of beachfront property owners have signed easements. The Army Corp of Engineers needs 238 more signatures in order to move forward with the project.

County leaders said the delay in the restoration project means less sand and less protection for the next big storm.

The next storm will take even more and slowly it will erode the beach back, probably to its original position at some point, said Bishop.

Many property owners worry signing the easement will give federal leaders too much leniency to build in the future, allow public access to private areas and because the agreement says its in perpetuity which essentially means forever.

This project has created an aesthetically beautiful beach that the people that live on the beach have benefited from for a long time. I think that they need to decide whether its worth giving all that up, said Bishop.