Over 397,000 homes and businesses were still without power in Florida on Tuesday, five days after Hurricane Ian crashed across the state.
Search-and-rescue teams doubled back to examine tens of thousands of Gulf Coast homes and businesses after an initial sweep through areas ravaged by Ian, as the death toll from one of America's fiercest storms on record topped 100.
Utilities have restored service to most customers affected by the storm. Ian knocked out power to more than 4 million customers in Florida and over 1.1 million in North and South Carolina.The utility with the most outages remaining, Florida Power & Light Co , said it expects restoration to remaining customers to be essentially complete by the end of Friday, Oct. 7.
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