ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Hurricane Helene devastated Danny Fustar’s St. Pete home and his friend’s, Enrico Palmerino.

"We are very close friends," Fustar said. "Our kids go to school together. So, we experienced this first go around with a hurricane together. Our families were displaced at a hotel together."

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In that hotel, they had an idea.

"We love St. Pete, and we were determined to stay here. And so, I needed to come up with something that would allow us to do that and not be fearful every single hurricane season," Palmerino said.

Palmerino said he didn’t see any flood barriers on the market that he liked, so, with a background in aluminum manufacturing, he created one of his own.

"I put it up on my house, and then the rest is history," Palmerino said. "The s

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