As Frances Exits Peninsular Florida after Three-Day Pounding, Number Of FPL's Customers with Power Restored Now Tops 1 Million.MIAMI Miami, cities, United States Miami (mīăm`ē, –ə). 1 City (1990 pop. 358,548), seat of Dade co., SE Fla., on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River; inc. 1896. -- Additional Crews to Arrive Today; Damage Assessments and Restoration to Begin in All Affected Areas Hurricane Frances This article is about the Atlantic hurricane of 2004; for other storms of the same name, see Hurricane Frances (disambiguation) Hurricane Frances was the sixth named storm, the fourth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. , the second major hurricane hurricane, tropical cyclone in which winds attain speeds greater than 74 mi (119 km) per hr. Wind speeds reach over 190 mi (289 km) per hr in some hurricanes. to hit Florida Florida, state, United States Florida (flôr`ĭdə, flŏr`–), state in the extreme SE United States. A long, low peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean (E) and the Gulf of Mexico (W), Florida is bordered by Georgia and Power & Light Company's service territory in a month, has already impacted more than 2.7 million customers. As Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. dawns, the remnants of Frances continue to affect the western portions of FPL's service territory. The company reports that it has now restored power to more than one million customers. Approximately 1.7 million customers are without electricity this morning. The first contingent of about 6,000 additional utility workers and contractors from out-of-state out-of-state adj. Of, relating to, or being from another state. that thus far had been unable to join FPL FPL feline panleukopenia. crews due to the dangerous conditions brought on by the large, slow-moving Adj. 1. slow-moving - moving slowly; "slow-moving cars" slow - not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; "a slow walker"; "the slow lane of traffic"; "her steps were slow"; "he was slow in reacting to the news"; "slow but steady growth" hurricane is expected to reach FPL staging sites Website development usually involves staging and production servers. The staging site is used to assemble, test and review new versions of a website before it goes into production. today to join in the massive restoration effort. The FPL-led team will restore power as safely and as quickly as possible, though the majority of customers currently without power should prepare for extended electrical service Electrical service, in building wiring, refers to the wiring that connects the electric utility's cables in the street to the building. Specifically, electrical service is the wiring from the street, through the meter and up to the panelboard, but no farther. outages. A comprehensive damage assessment has not yet been completed due to the severe weather, but the company estimates that it has experienced damage to its electrical infrastructure in virtually all areas of its service territory which extends 27,000 square miles A square mil is a unit of area, equal to the area of a square with sides of length one mil. A mil is one thousandth of an international inch. This unit of area is usually used in specifying the area of the cross section of a wire or cable. and covers 35 Florida counties. Hurricane Frances: September 6, 2004 (5:30 a.m.) Affected Counties Out Restored Affected ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alachua 900 400 1,300 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Baker 3,500 1,500 5,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bradford 4,000 200 4,200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brevard 220,100 34,500 254,600 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Broward 270,000 320,600 590,600 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Charlotte 4,400 16,600 21,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Clay 800 100 900 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Collier 3,100 36,100 39,200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Columbia 8,400 2,800 11,200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DeSoto 1,800 6,900 8,700 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Flagler 37,600 600 38,200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Glades 1,500 200 1,700 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hendry 200 2,300 2,500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Highlands 400 - 400 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Indian River 42,000 2,000 44,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lee 10,200 50,100 60,300 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Manatee 46,200 22,900 69,100 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin 72,000 12,000 84,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Miami-Dade 87,200 336,200 423,400 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nassau 12,000 1,800 13,800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Okeechobee 16,000 2,000 18,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Palm Beach 569,100 90,900 660,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Putnam 18,000 1,700 19,700 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sarasota 23,300 20,500 43,800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Seminole 35,400 16,000 51,400 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Johns 42,000 13,000 55,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Lucie 78,200 16,800 95,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Suwannee 2,300 100 2,400 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Union 1,500 100 1,600 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Volusia 123,000 33,000 156,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOTAL 1,735,100 1,041,900 2,777,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Florida Power & Light Company is the principal subsidiary of FPL Group, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :FPL), nationally known as a high quality, efficient and customer-driven organization focused on energy-related products and services. With annual revenues of more than $9 billion and a growing presence in 26 states, FPL Group is widely recognized as one of the country's premier power companies. Florida Power & Light Company serves more than 4.2 million customer accounts in Florida. FPL Energy, Inc., FPL Group's wholesale energy-generating subsidiary, is a leader in producing electricity from clean and renewable fuels Renewable fuels are alternative fuel sources such as ethanol, biodiesel (e.g. soy, vegetable oils, animal fats, or recycled restaurant greases) or hydrogen, in contrast to non-renewable fuels such as natural gas, LPG (propane). . Additional information is available on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the at www.FPL.com, www.FPLGroup.com and www.FPLEnergy.com. Note to Editors: High-resolution high-res·o·lu·tion adj. 1. Relating to an image that has fine detail. 2. a. Of or relating to an output device that produces images that contain a large number of dots per unit of area and are therefore sharp and logos and executive head shots are available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. at http://www.fpl.com/news/contents/logos.shtml. |
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