(Reuters) -More than 113,000 homes and businesses in Florida were still without power on Tuesday, a day after Hurricane Debby slammed into the state’s Gulf Coast, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
The number was down from a peak of 350,000 outages on Monday.
Debby, now a tropical storm, drenched northern Florida and killed several people as it churned toward Georgia and the Carolinas, threatening a week of torrential downpours and flooding across the region.
Organizations
The utility with the most customers hit was Duke Energy, which had about 33,112 clients still without power. It said 3,000 out-of-state crews were assisting its Florida team with outage restoration on Monday.
“While power has been restored for many, our crews will continue assessing damage and making repairs in the hardest-hit areas.”
It was followed by Clay Electric Coop, with 21,367 customers cut off in the state.
Here are the major outages by utility in Florida:
Power Companies Outages
Duke Energy 33,112
Clay Electric Coop 21,367
Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative 21,107
Tri-County Electric Coop 14,079
Central Florida Electric Cooperative 9,732
Florida Power & Light Company 7,816
Talquin Electric Cooperative 4,038
JEA 1,007
Gainesville Regional Utilities 731
Okefenoke REMC 320
City of Tallahassee 218
Withlacoochee River Electric Coop 118
Tampa Electric 89
Total Out 113,734
(Reporting by Sherin Elizabeth Varghese, Anjana Anil, Anmol Choubey, and Daksh Grover in Bengaluru; Editing by Helen Popper, Leslie Adler, Sonali Paul and Jonathan Oatis)
