FPL Crews Restore 95 Percent of Customers Left without Power by Hurricane Katrina; Work Continues Today in Hardest-Hit Areas.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 crews worked well into Tuesday Tuesday: see week. night and Wednesday morning restoring power to customers affected by Hurricane Katrina  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. . As of Wednesday morning, FPL FPLfeline panleukopenia. crews had restored 95 percent to the more than 1.4 million customers left without power by Katrina. The restoration work is now focused on repairing damage in the hardest hit neighborhoods which in many cases means crews will work house by house to restore service. FPL established ten large 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. in Miami-Dade and Broward counties to support the more than 14,400 linemen n. pl. 1. the football players who line up on the line of scrimmage. Noun 1. linemen - the football players who line up on the line of scrimmage , vegetation vegetation /veg·e·ta·tion/ (vej?e-ta´shun) any plantlike fungoid neoplasm or growth; a luxuriant fungus-like growth of pathologic tissue. and support personnel - including workers from 72 utilities, contractors and other companies in 25 states - that are taking part in the restoration effort.
Hurricane Katrina - Customer Counts
August 31, 2005 - 6 AM
Affected Counties Out Restored Affected Total
Accounts
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Brevard - 2,400 2,400 277,000
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Broward 9,250 541,650 550,900 882,000
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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 60,200 730,400 790,600 980,000
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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 69,450 1,383,550 1,453,000
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Counties Fully Restored 13
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Counties Still Affected 2
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