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Hurricane Milton slams Florida, leaving 3.4M utility customers without power
About 71% of Tampa Electric’s customers were without electricity Thursday morning after the hurricane hit land on Florida’s west coast. About 3.4 million electric customers were without power in Florida on Thursday morning after Hurricane Milton hit the state’s...
Hurricane Milton An Extremely Serious Threat To Florida; Destructive Storm Surge, Winds, Flooding Rain Expected
Hurricane Milton continues to pose a grave danger to Florida, where its potentially historic strike will bring destructive, life-threatening storm surge, widespread wind damage, flooding rainfall and tornadoes beginning Wednesday.
‘Extreme impacts’: Milton to become major hurricane, barrel ashore near Tampa Bay midweek
A state of emergency has been declared in Florida ahead of Milton, which is forecast to plow into the western peninsula on Wednesday as a major hurricane, packing wind gusts up to 140 mph and 15 feet of storm surge. Just days after the devastating impacts of Hurricane...
In areas hardest hit by Helene, rural cooperatives could need weeks to restore power
Mudslides, flooding and downed trees are challenging utilities in remote areas as they work to restore power. So far, supply chains have kept pace with the need for replacement equipment. Recovery efforts continue after Hurricane Helene knocked out power to about 6...
Duke Energy Restores Power to Nearly 1.1 Million in the Carolinas after Helene
'There are lots of areas across the South Carolina Upstate and North Carolina mountains where we’re going to have to completely rebuild parts of our system, not just repair it.' Duke Energy restored power to more than 1.1 million Carolinas customers impacted by...
2M customers still without power after Helene; some local grids must ‘be completely rebuilt’
Multiple utilities say they will need to completely rebuild, rather than repair, electric systems in the hardest-hit areas. Helene was the most destructive hurricane in Georgia Power’s history. About 2 million electric customers remained without power across the U.S....
