Thirteen Florida counties have been approved for federal assistance, and more are anticipated, Deanne Criswell Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday: “We are going to continue to be here to support the governor.” “That’s going to be more than just connecting a powerline back to a pole.” “The biggest challenge with power restoration is going to be in those areas that bore the brunt of the Category 4 impact,” he said. Statewide, 85% of Floridians had power however, in the hard-hit counties of Lee, Charlotte, Collier and Sarasota, more than half of homes and businesses remained without electricity, DeSantis said Friday night.
Thousands of utility workers, some from other states, are working to bring back electricity. Ian left a broad swath of destruction in Florida, flooding areas from its west to east coasts, tearing homes from their slabs, demolishing beachfront businesses and leaving more than 2.5 million homes and businesses without power. “Motorists planning on traveling on I-75 to southwest Florida should seek an alternative route,” transportation officials said. On Friday night, the Florida Department of Transportation closed Interstate 75 in both directions from North Port (Toledo Blade Boulevard) to Englewood (Jacaranda Boulevard) after rising water from the Myakka River made the highway no longer safe for travel. More than 20,000 people across the state were in shelters as of Friday.
In an effort to help families communicate with loved ones, telecom companies are allowing other networks’ customers to roam on their cell towers, DeSantis said Friday.
In North Fort Myers, another man who relied on oxygen was narrowly saved when his neighbors used an extension cord to connect his oxygen machine to a neighbor’s generator, the New York Times reported.īiden said Friday he was directing “every possible action be taken to save lives and get help to survivors … I just want the people of Florida to know, we see what you’re going through and we’re with you.” The two who died in Sarasota were both elderly residents who relied on oxygen machines that lost power during the storm, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office. In Volusia County, one man fell and drowned in rising flood waters in his own home, while another drowned in a nearby canal, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office reported.
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