{"id":413164,"date":"2026-09-28T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413164\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T21:46:08","slug":"memorial-bench-swept-away-during-hurricane-helene-two-years-ago-found-in-bermuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413164\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial bench swept away during Hurricane Helene two years ago found in Bermuda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6\">PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A memorial bench that was removed from Dunedin during Hurricane Helene in 2024 was found on a beach in Bermuda, more than 1,100 miles from Dunedin.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6\">The bench, in honor of Medhat \u201cMike\u201d Sadiku, originally sat on the Dunedin Causeway two years ago before the storm ripped it out and carried it into the Gulf. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6\">This year, it was found on a beach in Bermuda by a woman there. She contacted the Sadiku family through social media to let them know. She also sent the family pictures showing where the bench is currently sitting.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6\">Family members said Sadiku\u2019s memory is continuing to live on through the bench\u2019s discovery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6\">To give you an idea of how far the bench traveled, Bermuda is over 1,100 miles away from Dunedin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A memorial bench that was removed from Dunedin during Hurricane Helene in 2024 was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[20174,163655,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,835],"class_list":["post-413164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-auto-publish-video","tag-spectrum-news-in-90","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}