(Reuters) -More than 133,000 homes and businesses in Florida were still without power early on Tuesday, a day after Hurricane Debby slammed into the state’s Gulf Coast, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
The number was down from a peak of 350,000 outages on Monday.
Debby, now a tropical storm, drenched northern Florida and killed several people as it churned toward Georgia and the Carolinas, threatening a week of torrential downpours and flooding across the region.
The utility with the most customers hit was Duke Energy, which had about 44,000 clients still without power. It said 3,000 out-of-state crews were assisting its Florida team with outage restoration.
It was followed by Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative, with 23,042 customers cut off in the state.
Here are the major outages by utility in Florida:
Power Companies Outages
Duke Energy 43,948
Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative 23,042
Clay Electric Coop 21,628
Tri-County Electric Coop 13,474
Central Florida Electric Cooperative 11,642
Florida Power & Light Company 11,076
Talquin Electric Cooperative 5,371
Gainesville Regional Utilities 1,184
JEA 1,120
City of Tallahassee 666
Tampa Electric 254
Ocala Electric Utility 80
Total Out 133,485
(Reporting by Sherin Elizabeth Varghese, Anjana Anil, Anmol Choubey, and Daksh Grover in Bengaluru;Editing by Helen Popper, Aurora Ellis, Leslie Adler and Sonali Paul)
