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Article: Progress Energy Florida Crews Making Headway - Power Restored to Nearly 30 Percent Following Hurricane Charley Devastation.
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- PR Newswire
- Article date:
- August 16, 2004
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Progress Energy Florida crews have been working around the clock to repair the damage from Hurricane Charley, and the outage totals are starting to reflect the results. The company has restored power to 141,694, or nearly 30 percent, of its customers who lost power when Hurricane Charley battered Florida on Friday. As of 5:00 a.m. Monday, 360,306 Progress Energy Florida customers remained without power, down from a peak of 502,000 at midnight Friday. The storm inflicted significant damage to Progress Energy's infrastructure, taking out more than 700 miles of transmission lines -- equivalent to the distance between Miami and Jacksonville and back -- and 80 substations.
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