with coconuts concealing bottles of rum would arrive there. The pier was sturdy and wide enough to accommodate two cars side by side. The city sits on a plateau with an elevation never rising over above sea level. In 1921, the town was hit by a devastating hurricane. Large pine trees were uprooted and most of the town was flooded by water reaching levels above normal. Some of the city's oldest homes remain on Park Boulevard. Many homes still standing after the hurricane were moved by barge to St. Petersburg during the 1920s and 1930s. Olds had over $4.5 million invested in the community by 1923. When he realized Oldsmar was not growing as anticipated, he began liquidating his assets by first selling unplatted parcels of land. The racetrack was nearly completed when he traded it for the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater. The rest of the land was traded for the Belerive Hotel in Kansas. By the time Olds left town, he had suffered a loss of nearly $3 million. While Olds envisioned a city of 100,000, the population was around 200 when he left. Harry A. Prettyman, a St. Louis promoter, and his associates continued to sell lots in town following Olds's departure. Prettyman staged promotional gimmicks like Gold Rushes where pieces of gold were buried on a vacant lot and everyone got to dig for it. In 1927 Prettyman was caught selling underwater lots. To avoid scandal, the town of Oldsmar was renamed Tampa Shores. It wasn't until 1935 that the last of the property owned by Olds was finally sold. Christmas 2020 attempt to poison water supply The city's water supply computer system was hacked starting on December 20, 2020, until February 16, 2021. The attacker, who could have been anywhere in the world, attempted on February 5 to poison the water by raising the amount of lye to a lethal level. One report says that this was done using TeamViewer remote control software, legitimately installed to allow remote working. The hack was detected by a worker seeing it on his computer screen being carried out, and reversed immediately. City officials said that even if the hack had succeeded, automatic pH checking would have caught it in the 24 hours before the poisoned water reached consumers. The criminals were able to access the system due to lax security and shared passwords. The FBI said "the cyber