Published on October 10, 2024 at 1:36 pm
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JEA says it restored power to more than 40,000 customers overnight and only a few hundred remain without service after Hurricane Milton.
The utility’s power outage map showed 280 customers without power as of 1:30 p.m.
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“JEA’s community outreach team is visiting impacted areas today, along with JEA and contractor crews working to restore the remaining customers without power,” JEA said in an announcement. “Please know that we won’t rest until every single customer has their service restored.”
Outages were more widespread in hard-hit St. Johns County, according to poweroutage.us, a website that monitors outages.
No JEA customers remained without power in St. Johns County, but 26,230 customers of Florida Power & Light Co. still lacked service. That represented almost 22% of FPL’s customers there.
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About 3% of utility customers were without power in Putnam County, but less than 1% in Baker, Clay and Nassau counties.
Randy comes to Jacksonville from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, where as metro editor, he led investigative coverage of the Parkland school shooting that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for public service. He has spent more than 40 years in reporting and editing positions in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio and Florida.
