Officials in Florida fear the death toll from Hurricane Ian will continue to rise. The storm hit on the southwest coast and moved northeasterly across a large part of the state. The coastal areas were especially hard-hit by massive storm surge.
FPL power restoration underway
After the storm raged through Florida over 2 million people lost their electricity. And according to PowerOutage.us currently, about 1.7 million Floridians are still without power.
Peter Robbins, Florida Power & Light spokesperson says a timeline for power restoration should be developed by Friday night.
“Later today, we’re going to be able to provide our customers — in most areas — a more detailed timeline of restoration. We’re still doing damage assessments in the hardest-hit areas where it’s just been difficult to access those locations because of floodwaters and because of debris.”
“So those hardest-hit areas will take more time and getting that timeline will take us a little longer, but we should have an estimate for most of our customers later this evening,” Robbins added.
