Crews on Friday trim trees in Florida that could fall on power lines and cause power outages. Florida Power & Light Co., the state’s largest investor-owned utility, is expecting the hurricane to knock out power to upward of 3.4 million of its nearly 5 million customers as it strikes and passes over Florida. The company serves about 1.8 million customers in Florida. “Based on Hurricane Irma’s current track, we expect all of our Florida service area to feel the effects of this powerful storm,” said Luis Ordaz, storm director for Duke Energy Florida. Bonnie Erdek, a spokeswoman for Florida Public Utilities Co., a subsidiary of Chesapeake Utilities Corp. , said her company has been having storm calls twice a day to prepare for Irma.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 09, 2017 19:07 UTC