JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 As Florida braces for a historic Arctic Freeze, JEA wants you to know that it is prepared, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur fuel is in place and ready to go. And we will be there to deliver power to our customers,\u201d JEA Spokesperson Karen McAllister said.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Our first alert weather team says \u2018feels like temperatures\u2019 are going to be in the single digits this weekend, and the frigid temperatures will carry on through early next week. McAllister says JEA is expecting an increase in power usage. <\/p>\n \u201cCertainly there\u2019s going to be high demand with all of our customers running their heating systems throughout the weekend,\u201d McAllister said. \u201cBut like I said, we have prepared for this throughout the week.\u201d<\/p>\n As for whether the utility is expecting power outages, McAllister says it depends on the wind.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we have really high winds that can cause branches to fall on power lines,\u201d McAllister said. \u201cWe have extra crews on standby in the event of outages.\u201d <\/p>\n If you do experience a power outage, JEA says you can report it on JEA\u2019s website<\/a>. Or through the JEA mobile app. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 As Florida braces for a historic Arctic Freeze, JEA wants you to know that it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-139382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}