Thousands of customers across Northeast Florida were without power Sunday morning, affecting their ability to heat their homes and businesses during the extreme cold.<\/p>\n
According to Clay Electric, a little less than 700 customers were affected on Sunday morning, with several outages caused by limbs falling during the freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n
In Fleming Island, outages were being reported off U.S. 17. Another outage was affecting the Doctors Lake area, between U.S. 301 and County Road 200A, and the largest outage Sunday morning was in Keystone Heights, where over 400 customers were without power. <\/p>\n
Spokesperson Nick Jones shared the following statement:<\/p>\n
While the cold has created some challenges, crews are out in the field making steady progress, and conditions are improving as temperatures rise. Lineworkers are actively restoring service as safely and quickly as possible, with priority given to outages affecting critical facilities and larger groups of members.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, we encourage members to report outages through their MyClayElectric account or by calling our outage line, and to use caution with generators and space heaters. We appreciate our members\u2019 patience as crews finish up restoration.\u201d<\/p>\n
To see the current power outages in Clay County or to report one in your area, go to clayelectric.outagemap.coop\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Jacksonville, JEA reported about 4,500 customers without power around 7 a.m. with crews working to restore power as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n By 8:15 a.m, the number of customers without power was down to about 2,500<\/p>\n To see the current JEA power outage map or to report an outage in your area, go to www.jea.com\/outage_center\/outage_map\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Florida Power and Light was dealing with significant outages on Sunday morning also, including in Flagler County, Nassau County and Columbia County.\u00a0<\/p>\n