Isaias leaves more than 149,000 Florida customers without power

By Reuters News

- More than 149,000 homes and businesses in Florida were without power on Monday after Hurricane Isaias swept through the U.S. Southeast, according to data from PowerOutage.us.

Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, on Friday as a Category 2 storm before weakening to a post-tropical cyclone later in the week. The storm brought damaging winds, heavy rain, flash flooding and tornado threats across parts of the U.S. Southeast, leaving four people dead.

Florida Power & Light reported 112,021 customers without power, accounting for the bulk of outages across the state, according to PowerOutage.us.

Escambia County was the hardest hit, with 67,573 customers without power, followed by Santa Rosa County with 47,443 customers and Walton County with 17,218 customers, according to PowerOutage.us.

Here are the major outages by state:


State

Outages

Florida

149,345

Alabama

21,544

California

18,861

Pennsylvania

9,108

North Carolina

4,745

South Carolina

3,040

Virginia

2,763

Texas

2,603

Total Out

212,009

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