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Hurricane Ian updates: Some Floridians face another week without power - USA TODAY

Hurricane Ian updates: Some Floridians face another week without power - USA TODAY

Oct 04, 2022 2 mins, 57 secs

Water and electricity could be restored by Sunday to all the homes, businesses, schools and hospitals in Southwest Florida that are structurally sound after the devastation of Hurricane Ian, authorities said Monday. .

“We’ve laid out a very good plan,” Florida Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said.

Schools in 13 counties remained closed, but all counties in Southwest Florida expected to be fully back by the end of the week, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz said. Lee, DeSoto, Charlotte, Sarasota and Hardee counties have “the most to deal with,” Diaz said.

The death toll from Ian climbed to at least 78 people, according to the Associated Press: 71 confirmed fatalities in Florida, four in North Carolina and three in Cuba, where Ian made its first landfall Tuesday. Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Mark Glass said Monday that there were at least 58 confirmed deaths in the state.

Over 1,900 people have been rescued in Florida statewide since the storm struck the state, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said during a press conference Monday?

BEFORE AND AFTER: A look at Hurricane Ian's damage in Florida.

Power has been restored to over 2 million Florida residents, DeSantis said Monday.

“Right now, statewide, 95% of customers have power,” the governor said at a press conference Monday.

About 550,000 homes and businesses in Florida were still without electricity on Monday morning, down from a peak of 2.6 million.

The worst outages continue to affect southwest Florida, DeSantis said, where Hurricane Ian made landfall last week.

Florida is in the process of deploying 375 satellite devices provided by Elon Musk to restore internet in areas hit by Hurricane Ian, DeSantis said Monday.

After blasting through Florida and then pounding the Carolinas, the weakened but still-dangerous storm doused Virginia with rain Monday, and officials warned of potentially severe flooding by Tuesday. The remnants of the once-Category 4 hurricane moved offshore and was merging with a low-pressure system to form a nor’easter expected to drive more water into an already inundated Chesapeake Bay. .

Looting and scams are growing concerns across Southwest Florida, authorities said Monday.

Lee County’s decision not to order evacuations until Tuesday morning – a day after neighboring counties had already warned residents of low-lying areas to leave – was made solely by county officials, Florida Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said Monday. The decision to wait overnight to gauge Hurricane Ian’s path apparently clashed with the county’s own planning protocols for ordering residents out even when a minimal risk of serious storm surge could accompany an approaching storm.

“They made the best decision based on the information at the time,” Guthrie said at a Monday briefing in Tallahassee. “When making decisions in a disaster, emergency management directors do not have a crystal ball.” .

Michael Ross, of Naples, Florida, was in Bonita Springs when Hurricane Ian plowed through.

Ron DeSantis pushed Sunday for expedited recovery efforts in southwest Florida, heavily damaged by Ian last week. DeSantis toured some of the areas still experiencing flooding from the storm, surveying damage by boat in North Port in Sarasota County and then Arcadia in DeSoto County

Almost 600,000 homes and businesses across Florida remained without power Monday, according to PowerOutage.us. Florida Power & Light, the state's largest power company, said it had restored electricity to nearly 1.7 million customers and expects to restore the majority of power by Friday

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