680,000 Without Power as Hurricane Ian Officially Makes Landfall in FloridaOver 650,000 people in Florida are without power as of Wednesday afternoon due to the impacts of Hurricane Ian, according to a power outage monitoring website.
Across the state, 680,000 thousand lost power, Poweroutage.us says. The majority of outages are located in Lee, Collier, Sarasota, Charlotte, and Manatee counties, it shows. Lee County appears to have seen the worst impacts, with over 60 percent of all customers losing power.
Hurricane Ian has made landfall in western Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in its latest update at 3:10 p.m. ET. The storm is a very strong Category 4 with 155 mph winds, or just 2 mph shy of a Category 5 system....
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