Hurricane Irma knocked out power to more than 2.6 million homes and businesses in Florida on Sunday, threatening millions more as it crept up the state’s west coast, and full restoration of service could take weeks, local electric utilities said. So far, the brunt of the storm has affected Florida Power & Light’s customers in the states’ southern and eastern sections, and its own operations were not immune, either. ET (2015 GMT), and warned its 1.8 million customers in northern and central Florida that outages could ultimately exceed 1 million. FPL said on Friday that Irma could affect about 4.1 million customers, but that was before the storm track shifted away from the eastern side of the state. There is also spent nuclear fuel at Duke’s Crystal River plant, about 90 miles (145 km) north of Tampa.

Source: New Strait Times September 10, 2017 22:30 UTC