Preparation and Recovery

1+ hour, 35+ 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....

7+ hour, 53+ 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…...

3+ hour, 3+ 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…...

2+ hour, 16+ 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…...

7+ hour, 29+ min ago   (143+ words) INDIANAPOLIS — Almost 9,000 people were without power Tuesday morning following a power outage on Indy’s near east side, according to AES Indiana. The power outage was first reported sometime after 7 a.m. At least 9,000 were without power at the time, but…...

7+ hour, 56+ min ago   (78+ words) INDIANAPOLIS — More than 17,000 AES Indiana customers were without power at the peak of an outage Tuesday morning. Most of the outages were reported on the near east side, around East 21st Street and North Sherman Drive. By 7:10 a.m., more than 9,300 customers…...

7+ hour, 56+ min ago   (71+ words) 93.9 The Eagle UPDATE: Ten Boone Electric line workers in hurricane-damaged Alabama Hurricane-damaged Alabama is receiving assistance from Columbia-based Boone Electric Cooperative, which has sent ten lineworkers there. The ten are assisting Alabama’s Southern Pine Electric Cooperative with power restoration efforts....

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (87+ words) An ESB Networks crew repairing power lines. Image for illustration purposes THOUSANDS of homes and businesses in Portlaoise were left without electricity this morning, following a major outage. More than 2,200 customers in the town and surrounding areas were affected by…...

9+ hour, 50+ min ago   (951+ words) Thousands remain without power after a destructive storm ripped roofs from buildings, toppled trees and powerlines and pelted homes with large hailstones. The Northern Territory Emergency Service in Alice Springs received 101 calls for help following Monday afternoon’s severe storm, with…...

21+ hour, 43+ min ago   (363+ words) A family of three escaped unharmed after a tree more than 40 feet tall crashed onto their Hoover home early Saturday morning during Hurricane Isaias, damaging the attic and blocking access to their daughter’s bedroom. The tree fell on the home…...