Seventy-Eight Percent of Homes and Businesses Impacted by Hurricane Katrina in Florida Have Power Restored; Thousands of FPL Crews Poised for Another Full Day of Restoration Work.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 Power & Light Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : FPL FPL feline panleukopenia. ) has completed electric service restoration to 1,139,000 of the 1.45 million customers impacted by Hurricane Katrina  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. three days ago. This morning,
FPL crews began to roll out from ten 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. throughout Miami-Dade
and Broward for another full day of work. FPL has assembled as·sem·ble v. as·sem·bled, as·sem·bling, as·sem·bles v.tr. 1. To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury. 2. a restoration army of more than 14,100 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 to tackle the massive restoration work. As FPL crews continue to work around the clock, the company said it is on track to meet its target of getting power back on for 90 percent of affected customers no later than Tuesday night. In some areas, the company expects to do better than that by getting 100 percent of customers restored in northern Broward County and southern Miami-Dade County by Tuesday night. Here is the latest restoration information: --In Broward County, all customers north of Commercial Boulevard should expect power restored by Tuesday night and many will get power sooner. --In Miami-Dade County, all customers south of Eureka Drive (SW 184th Street) will have electric service by Tuesday night as well, and many sooner. --Additionally, 100 percent of the customers on Key Biscayne This article is about the island named Key Biscayne. For the village on the island of the same name, see Key Biscayne, Florida. For the tennis tournament sometimes referred to as Key Biscayne, see Miami Masters. in Miami-Dade will have power restored by Tuesday night. --In the remaining areas of the two counties, FPL continues to forecast that most of the affected customers will get their power by Tuesday night. --Regarding the final 10 percent of hardest hit customers, which FPL earlier said would be restored between Tuesday and Friday - the company today said more specific geographic estimates would be forthcoming tomorrow. While restoring power to thousands of customers, FPL worked through Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. to restore the vast majority of traffic signals in the two counties. The majority of public schools in both Broward and Miami-Dade are open this morning. FPL reports that the remaining public schools without power will be in service by tonight. All hospitals received power this weekend. FPL continues to urge customers using portable generators to please practice safety. Keep generators well way from open windows so exhaust Exhaust may refer to: In mathematics:
Hurricane Katrina - Customer Counts
August 29, 2005 - 6:00 AM
Affected Counties Out Restored Affected Total
Accounts
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Brevard - 2,400 2,400 277,000
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Broward 101,100 449,800 550,900 882,000
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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 212,900 577,700 790,600 980,000
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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 314,000 1,139,000 1,453,000
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Counties Fully Restored 13
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Counties Still Affected 2
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