FPL left a lot of people in the dark
- Sep 19, 2017
- 1 min read
Despite promising full power restoration to all east coast customers by the end of this past weekend, FPL’s Power Tracker map indicates that, as of Sept. 19, 16,940 customers in Miami-Dade were still without electricity—in total, 108,890 are powerless.
This opinion article was created for PantherNOW and examines FPL's job after Hurricane Irma.
Check out the article’s excerpt below and click the link if you want to read the full story!
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Maytinee Kramer/Opinion Director
Despite promising full power restoration to all east coast customers by the end of this past weekend, FPL’s Power Tracker map indicates that, as of Sept. 19, 16,940 customers in Miami-Dade were still without electricity—in total, 108,890 are powerless.
And for our friends on the west coast, you might have electricity restored by Sept. 22.
FPL is certainly taking their sweet time with things and doing a good job at leaving people in the dark. To show for it, residents are starting to get angry and very displeased with the current service.
While the power monopoly claims to have spent tens of millions of dollars in the past few years to “harden” its system so that it’s more resistant to hurricane damage, Hurricane Irma caused 90 percent of Florida to lose electricity. Granted, Irma was a larger scale storm that presented many and varied threats to the electricity system, but FPL should have been prepared.
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