• More than 1.3 million customers in Florida were without power Sunday morning, and power had been restored to nearly 200,000 customers, according to the electric company Florida Power & Light. Keys Energy Services, which supplies electricity to Key West and the lower Florida Keys, said that all of its 29,000 customers were without power. The hurricane made landfall in Cuba on Friday evening — the first Category 5 hurricane to hit the island since 1924. • Florida officials have ordered more than 6.5 million residents to leave their homes, one of the largest emergency evacuations in American history. A tweet from the city of Miami told residents, “AVOID THE AREA!

Source: New York Times September 10, 2017 09:12 UTC