Factbox-Nearly 270,000 homes without power in Florida post Hurricane Ian
2022.10.05 18:59
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Graffiti is seen on a destroyed shopping building after Hurricane Ian caused widespread destruction in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, U.S., October 3, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello
(Reuters) – Close to 270,000 homes and businesses still lacked power in Florida on Wednesday, almost a week after Hurricane Ian crashed across the state.
U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Florida and pledge support to help the state recover from the hurricane.
Search-and-rescue teams doubled back to examine tens of thousands of Gulf Coast homes and businesses after an initial sweep through areas ravaged by Ian, as the death toll topped 100 from one of the fiercest U.S. storms on record.
Utilities have restored service to most customers after Ian knocked out power to more than 4 million customers in Florida and over 1.1 million in North Carolina and South Carolina.
The utility with the most outages remaining, Florida Power & Light Co (FPL), said it expects restoration to remaining customers to be essentially complete by the end of Friday. FPL is a unit of Florida energy company NextEra Energy Inc (NYSE:).
Major outages by utility:
Power Company State/Pro Out Now Customers Served
vince
NextEra – FPL FL 5,730,000
146,371
Lee County Electric Co-op FL 238,000
123,855
Total Out
270,226
Source: PowerOutage.us and power companies
