Isaias leaves more than 149,000 Florida customers without power
NEE•More than 149,000 Florida homes and businesses were without power on Monday after Hurricane Isaias swept through the U.S. Southeast. Florida Power & Light reported 112,021 customers without power, while outages across the listed states totaled 212,009.
1. Florida outages
Florida had 149,345 reported outages, including 112,021 customers served by Florida Power & Light. Escambia County had 67,573 outages, followed by Santa Rosa County with 47,443 and Walton County with 17,218.
2. Storm damage
Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, on Friday as a Category 2 storm before weakening to a post-tropical cyclone. It brought damaging winds, heavy rain, flash flooding and tornado threats across parts of the Southeast, leaving four people dead.
