Preparation and Recovery

49+ min ago   (112+ words) ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- Escambia County has completed its initial damage assessment for Hurricane Isaias, estimating about $64 million in damages tied to county repairs. The estimate covers damage to Escambia County facilities, buildings, equipment, parks, roads, bridges, and emergency recovery efforts....

50+ min ago   (164+ words) Pensacola News Journal Early Escambia County Isaias public damage estimated at $64M Escambia County has completed the initial damage assessment for Hurricane Isaias and estimates damages for county repairs will total about $64 million. This total includes Escambia County facilities, buildings, equipment,…...

7+ hour, 7+ min ago   (314+ words) PENSACOLA,Fla. -- Florida Power & Light says they have restored power to more than 85% of customers impacted by Hurricane Isaias, with restoration essentially complete in six of the eight affected counties. As of Moday at 10 p.m., FPL said more than 380,000 outages had…...

2+ hour, 17+ min ago   (124+ words) Oct 13 (Reuters) – Insured losses to onshore property from Hurricane Isaias ​is expected to ‌be between $1 billion and $2 billion, data analytics firm Verisk said on Tuesday. Hurricane Isaias made ‌landfall ​near Destin, ⁠Florida, last week, ⁠and left hundreds of thousands of…...

3+ hour, 8+ min ago   (102+ words) The Black Chronicle (The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Energy over the weekend authorized an emergency exchange of 4 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to address supply disruptions in the Gulf […] U.S. announces emergency…...

2+ hour, 53+ min ago   (323+ words) Verisk (VRSK) estimates insured industry losses to onshore property from Hurricane Isaias will range from USD 1 billion to USD 2 billion. Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, at approximately 8:30 p.m. CDT on Oct. 9 as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds…...

4+ hour, 18+ min ago   (185+ words) DOTHAN, Ala. (WDNews) — Dothan Utilities continues making progress restoring electricity following Hurricane Isaias, with 74 customers still without power as of Tuesday, Oct. 13. According to the City of Dothan, utility crews are focusing restoration efforts on the following locations: – 300 block of…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (693+ words) America’s investor-owned electric companies are in the next stage of prep mode on Friday, mobilizing along the Gulf Coast and further inland as Hurricane Isaias roils toward Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida panhandle as a Category 3 storm with maximum sustained…...

1+ hour, 30+ min ago   (600+ words) Some 120,000 power customers were still waiting for power restoration in Florida as of Monday afternoon, three days after Hurricane Isaias hit the Florida Panhandle, as momentum gathered behind the state’s disaster recovery. “We now have essentially full restoration in Bay…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (290+ words) Rep. Dan Meuser announced the Assistance to Firefighters Grant funding, which will support training, protective equipment, facility upgrades and apparatus for volunteer departments across several counties 11 Pa. fire, EMS companies receive $2.8 million in FEMA grants Rep. Dan Meuser announced the…...