Power Returned To All But 10 Miami-Dade Customers: FPL

MIAMI, Fl — Florida Power & Light said that power had been restored to all but 10 Miami-Dade customers by Thursday morning. Some 16,610 customers were still without power in the state's eight most southern counties, according to a Patch analysis. FPL has set a target of restoring power to all Florida customers on Friday.

"As of this evening, power restoration is essentially complete in all 35 counties served by FPL, with the exception of Glades, Lee and Collier counties, where restoration is more than 95 percent complete," FPL said late Wednesday. "We are working hard to restore more than 99 percent of customers who are able to accept power in Southwest Florida by tomorrow night, which is ahead of our original commitment of end of day Friday, Sept. 22."

Customers who live in a county where power is essentially restored, but do not currently have electricity, should report their outage at FPL.com/outage, according to the power company. (For more hurricane news or local news from Florida, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Miami Patch, and click here to find your local Florida Patch. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

"The damage from this powerful and slow-moving storm is staggering, and that fact continues to be reinforced as our crews collapse further into the hardest-hit areas along Florida's West Coast," said Eric Silagy, president and CEO of FPL. "In Arcadia, for example, approximately 30 restoration personnel are working several days to repair 30 sections of line and install two dozen poles to restore service to a handful of customers. These men and women are facing extraordinary circumstances, including navigating tornado damage and extensive flooding that has left the area seemingly unrecognizable."

Silogy said that a worker was seriously injured while restoring power near Sarasota on Wednesday. The worker is employed by FirstEnergy Corp.

As of Thursday morning, the power company reported that it had restored power to 3,047,174 customers. FPL has 4.1 million customers in the affected areas of South Florida.

Watch: Hurricane Irma's Destructive Journey By The Numbers

Just prior to the storm making landfall in the Florida Keys on Sept. 10 a total of 193,000 South Florida customers were without power. As of Sept. 11, some 2.4 million South Florida customers were without power.

Here are the latest outage numbers as of early Thursday morning.

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