yesterday i talked with the administrator. i urged them to take advantage of the assistance fema can offer in advance and committed to do everything we can to support their communities through the storm and afterwards. fema has already prepositioned resources in the region to speed our ability to respond, including food, water and life-saving communications equipment as well as generators. in close cooperation with the electrical sector, preparations are in place to address significant power outages and resources and support that s staged at the edge of this storm to be able to move quickly in to help. thousands of additional line crews and vegetation clearing crews from other states and from canada are already heading toward the impacted states. ready to serve move in as soon as is feasible. they ll clean up fallen trees, help local utilities repair damaged lines and restore
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them. i m here with the man who s in charge of putting the lights on in the state capital. this is scott maddox, the city commissioner. thanks for being with us. sure, sure. reporter: what do you think about the impact of this storm now that it s over, now that it s passed? you were expecting a real blow. what are you seeing? we re very thankful to god that it went a little bit west of us. we re praying for the folks in jackson county and other places that were devastated by high winds, including panama city and apalachicola and the coast. we have 55% of our city is under tree cover. we re very proud of our live oak trees like you were just saying. we have 495 intersections that are blocked by trees. 90% of our electric customers are without power today, but we re working on it. we ve got over 500 trucks from all of the country that have come in to assist us with our line crews, and we ll have everybody up and going pretty quickly. now, you mentioned, this isn t tallahassee s f
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