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Scott PowersSeptember 15, 2017

More than half of Collier and Lee counties now have power but approximately 100,000 customers in each was without electricity, and 1.4 million statewide Friday evening. Statewide, more than 87 percent of Florida has the lights – and air conditioning – back on, in the latest report issued by the Florida Office of Emergency Management, […]

Scott PowersSeptember 14, 2017

Heat may be rising among the millions of Floridians still without power, as 2.3 million homes and businesses head toward finishing a fourth full day without. The latest data from the Florida Office of Emergency Management show 22 percent of the state still was sweating out power outages at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, on what has […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 7, 2017

Florida Power & Light announced Thursday that it is putting workers in place around the state to quickly respond to possible power outages in the wake of Hurricane Irma. “We continue to pre-position an army of line and vegetation workers across the state where they can make the biggest impact as soon as it is […]

Scott PowersOctober 7, 2016

Volusia County has gone almost entirely dark, and Flagler and Indian River counties are not far behind, because of Hurricane Matthew. The latest power outage reports provided by Gov. Rick Scott‘s office show 78 percent of power customers in Volusia were without electricity as of noon, while 69 percent of Flagler customers, 67 percent of Indian […]

Joe HendersonSeptember 6, 2016

While city officials play those favored political parlor games of finger-pointing and pass-the-blame, thousands of residents remain without power. That’s all we ought to care about now. There are reports of price gouging. Large trees are down all over the city. People are steaming as they wonder about the competence of the power they have […]

Tag: Power outage

Power update: 1.4 million customers still without electricity

Power update: 2.3 million homes and businesses still without

FPL positioning ‘army’ of workers across Florida

Power outage in Volusia approaches 80%; 826,000 statewide and rising

Joe Henderson: Hurricane Hermine leaves Category 5 mess in unprepared Tallahassee