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Safety is our top priority right now, and we want you to share that commitment. Please keep safety top of mind, and we appreciate your patience and understanding as our crews continue to work through these challenges, and we will not stop until every last person has their power back on."
Initial assessments show our investments in hardening and smart-grid technology have made a big difference, enabling our crews to restore more than 730,000 customers within hours of the storm exiting the state,
said Armando Pimentel, FPL's president and CEO Our crews have been working safely and as quickly as possible through a number of challenges, including flooding, debris and other hazards that Milton left behind."
FPL spokesperson Jack Eble said Former President Trump, get a life, man,
Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if [Kamala Harris] is your president.”
Departing from his teleprompter throughout, Trump later said Well, we’re a developing nation too, just take a look at Detroit. Detroit’s a developing area more than most places in China.”
The former president, whose speeches are frequently rambling, was speaking about China being a developing country, and said Conditions have improved since yesterday evening, but there's still a lot of water on the roads, downed trees and electrical lines everywhere,
Several strong tornadoes developed within rainbands associated with Hurricane Milton. This is the first and very preliminary EF rating for one of those tornadoes,
Our hearts break for the Floridians who have lost so much,
Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, said in an afternoon briefing from the White House I've been through a lot of storms, but this was the worst one,
The tornado came through and picked up my 22-ton motor home and threw it across the yard,
said Bill, 72, expressing "absolute astonishment" at the tornado's power We're just glad that our lives weren't taken and that we're okay and that's the main thing,
I said 'it sounds like a train's coming,'
Katherine, 53, told AFP while out to walk their dog and survey the damage Do I feel lucky? Damn right I do,
said Ralph Burnett, whose house is located just a few hundred feet (dozens of meters) from the decimated Spanish Lakes Country Club neighborhood We don’t know whether we can come back,
Justino Torres, 58, told AFP shortly after crews evacuated him from a building We dont know where to go. We have been in this country for nearly 20 years and have no family. It's her, me, and the dog,
he said, pointing to their chihuahua Tito There is no question it needs to be a serious wake-up call for everyone in terms of climate change,
she told AFP, surveying the damage It is not easy to think you have everything and suddenly you have nothing,
It all happened very quickly. The water rushed in suddenly, it was strong, with a lot of current,
Scary and heartbreaking at the same time, to see much damage and all things you really love just gone, but it's only things and we're still here,