The number of people killed in Florida by Hurricane Ian topped 100 on Monday, days after the storm made landfall at Category 4 strength, decimating coastal towns and leaving rescue crews searching for survivors while communities face the daunting task of rebuilding, according to CNN.
Nearly 600,000 homes, businesses and other customers in Florida still did not have power as of early Monday afternoon, noted PowerOutage.us. Many are without clean tap water, with well over 100 boil-water advisories in places around the state, according to the Florida Health Department.
Some residents and businesses in storm-damaged counties may not be back on the grid for “weeks or months” because of the structural damage caused by the hurricane, said Florida Power and Light President/CEO Eric Silagy. “The amount of water that we received and the height of the surge affected a lot of the infrastructure,” Naples City Manager Jay Boodheshwar told CNN. “So there are transformers that are fried. It is not simply rehanging lines. There are things that may need to be replaced.” Continue Reading |
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