"Hurricane Ian’s catastrophic winds will mean parts of our system will need to be rebuilt – not restored. Be prepared for widespread, extended outages as we are assessing the damage. We are already at work restoring power where we can do so safely," Florida Power & Light said.
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- Close to 97% of Charlotte County was without power.
- The largest number of residents without power are in Collier County, which includes Naples: 70% of the 262,000 customers.
- 81% of customers in Sarasota County experienced outages; Manatee had 52%.
- 95% of the nearly 472,000 customers in Lee County are without power.
Imagine the health consequences of no lighting, no safe water to drink, of having at present not even the capacity to assess the extent of the damage because it is too dangerous. We are going to find out how long people in these decimated communities can survive without electricity, without safe water to drink, without food, and with these shortages widepread, with 180,400 without electricity for an "extended" time, with 183,000 without power in Collier; 347,000 in Sarasota, 205,000 in Manatee; 448,000 in Lee; a total of 1,363,000 people in just those big five counties WITHOUT ELECTRICITY. 1,360,000 human beings cannot survive for "an extended time" without electricity, clean drinking water, and food. The Biden administration has got to declare martial law and employ the military to evacuate these 1.36M people while the utility grids are being "rebuilt" or there are going to be hundreds of thousands of Floridians dead. This is the greatest catastrophe to human life in America from a natural disaster in my life time.
That truck is fucking destroyed, DONE. Like the power grid you can't restore that truck, you have to sell it for parts or rebuild it from top to bottom.
That is the first floor of a HOME. The photo taken by the homeowner from the second floor. Can you imagine what that volume of water--over the entirety of the first floor and lapping over the first step to the second floor, does to 1) the foundation of the house 2) to the structural integrity of the building. Can you imagine the disease in those waters with the sewers completely swamped, the disease that will be hiding in the mold in the walls and floors for years. That's a nice, prosperous home. Is it doomed?
