(Reuters) – About 440,000 homes and businesses were still without power in Florida in early on Tuesday, five days after Hurricane Ian crashed across the state.
Search-and-rescue teams in Florida doubled back to examine tens of thousands of Gulf Coast homes and businesses on Monday after an initial sweep through areas ravaged by Hurricane Ian, as the death toll from one of America’s fiercest storms on record topped 100.
Utilities have restored service to most customers affected by the storm. Ian knocked out power to more than 4 million customers in Florida.
The utility with the most outages remaining, Florida Power & Light Co (FPL), said it expects complete restoration to 95% of customers who remain without power by Friday, Oct. 7. FPL is a unit of Florida energy company NextEra Energy Inc.
Major outages by utility:
Power Company State/Pro Out Now Customers Served
vince
NextEra – FPL FL 5,734,000
260,761
Lee County Electric Co-op FL 238,000
170,621
Duke – Florida FL 1,937,000
2,471
Total Out
433,853
Source: PowerOutage.us and power companies
(Reporting by Ashitha Shivaprasad in Bengaluru and Scott DiSavino in New York)
