The number of people without power in Florida has shot up to nearly 265,000 as of 0942 local time (1442 BST), according to statistics from PowerOutage.us.
The data – which is updated regularly – shows that significant portions of the population of Florida’s Big Bend area are without power.
In Wakulla County, for example, about 12,000 people out of 17,700 customers tracked by the website are currently without power – nearly 70%.
To the east, in Taylor County, about 10,300 of 13,770 customers tracked have been left without power, about 78%.
The greatest percentage of homes without power is in Suwannee County, an inland area in Florida’s north.
Here, about 23,000 out of 24,800 homes are without power – or about 92% of the population.
Source:Fiilafmonline/BBC
