Got to admit, that was fast- based on how bad the storm was.
My daughter lives in an apartment complex in Tampa located at the edge of Tampa Bay (water). She and her husband stayed with a friend in Orlando the night of the storm. When she went home the next day, she had power!
There’s a depth to what this means.
Generation is all on line.
The high voltage transmission lines are fine.
Distribution and connections are restored to 2 million more places.
BUT his doesn’t mean the utility can or should connect power to damaged buildings.
Also from friends in the business, and from publications by their public affairs office, AT&T has restored 98%+ CELL service over the entirety of Florida, and has reached 70%+ restoration to hurricane affected areas. AT&T also enabled other network customers to roam onto their network AT NO FEE and was handling over 10 TB of data and 3 million plus texts per day from other carriers. There’s a story in the news showing where AT&T sent an amphibious SatCOLT to Sanibel island to provide cell service for the First Responders there.
There’s lot of ‘phone company’ haters here, so knock yourself out.
But AT&T, who operates the FirstNet network for FRNA, has done a great job of keeping the service up and restoring it where lost via COLTs and SatCOLTs.
The wireline and internet stats are not as good, but cell service is coming back pretty rapidly, and especially so for first responders and National Guard.
Very fast. Texas had tons of out of state electric company trucks and employees in our area, but I still was without power for 3 weeks after Hurricane Rita and nearly 2 weeks after Harvey. I read somewhere that Florida had gone to underground power lines some years ago, if that’s true it’s a very good idea for gulf states.
I'd read today that the power grid in Florida has been strengthened over the years and while not "hurricane proof" quite yet, large swaths of it are.
DeSantis also said the other day that power is getting restored at the rate of @ 100,000 homes & businesses per hour.
That means the power restoration is going to be pretty darn quick when you think about all the destruction & flooding Ian caused.
Democrats everywhere are of course, saddened by that news.
He looked at all of the possibilities and prepared accordingly. Only Democrats/Communists are allowed to fail.
It was terrible.
But why have the federal govt get involved.
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.