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FPL Crews Continue to Make Good Progress in Service Restoration; Combined Broward/Miami Dade Restoration Reaches 82 Percent.


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.
 -- 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 today reported that as of 1 p.m., restoration crews had reduced the number of outages in Broward Broward could refer to:
  • Broward County, Florida
  • Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, the Florida governor after which the county is named.
 and Miami-Dade counties to 264,200 customers still without power. Nearly 82 percent of the 1.45 million FPL FPL

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 customers who lost power as a result of Hurricane Katrina Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism.  are now back in service. Crews today are concentrating efforts primarily on working neighborhood-to-neighborhood now that most of the primary lines have been restored. FPL continues to work toward its goal of having 90 percent of its customers who were impacted by Katrina KATRINA Keeping All the Resources in New Orleans Alive
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 back in service by Tuesday Tuesday: see week.  night, with the remainder back in service before Friday night.
Hurricane Katrina - Customer Counts
                       August 29, 2005 - 1:00 PM

                                                               Total
Affected Counties                   Out   Restored  Affected  Accounts
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Brevard                               -     2,400     2,400   277,000
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Broward                          77,800   473,100   550,900   882,000
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Charlotte                             -       200       200    96,800
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Collier                               -     6,600     6,600   181,000
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DeSoto                                -       100       100    15,100
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Lee                                   -     2,600     2,600   209,000
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Manatee                               -       200       200   162,000
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Martin                                -       200       200    86,300
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Miami-Dade                      186,400   604,200   790,600   980,000
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Okeechobee                            -       200       200    19,200
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Palm Beach                            -    97,600    97,600   681,000
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Putnam                                -       100       100    23,200
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Sarasota                              -       600       600   235,000
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St. Lucie                             -       600       600   105,000
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Volusia                               -       100       100   165,000
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TOTAL                           264,200 1,188,800 1,453,000
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Counties Fully Restored                                  13
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Counties Still Affected                                   2
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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 $10 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 4.3 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 http://www.FPL.com, http://www.FPLGroup.com and http://www.FPLEnergy.com.

Note to Editors: High-resolution 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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