also want to take the opportunity to remind our customers and the general public to keep safety top of mind. fpl, we consider safety our number one priority. we want to ensure that our customers know that we re working around the clock to safely and quickly restore power to our customers. you want to assure our customers that they know power one of the issues for sure is going to be really at a premium in the next couple hours as more and more homes loose power down the line, as hurricane ian barrels towards florida with 155 mile an hour winds. let s go to washington, d.c. fema headquarters is speaking with the national weather center officials right now. we have thrown everything at it from satellites and radar. we have expert balloon releases across the country. think about the midwest. think about the northwest united states. the weather service office is
across the entire state. we are ready to respond. also want to take the opportunity to remind our customers and the general public to keep safety top of mind. fpl, we consider safety our number one priority and we want to insure that our customers know that we are working around the clock to safely and quickly restore power to our customers and i want to assure our customers that they know that we will not stop until every customer is restored. again, thank you very much, governor. james. i want to thank governor desantis for his leadership. i spent the last few days at the emergency operations center. this storm is unbearable to watch i have a lot of faith in knowing the team he assembled that s ready to launch across the state. we ve seen in tallahassee, here and elsewhere. at deo we support communities, businesses and floridians. especially true during a
0 do on normal types of storms. and then having major structural damage to the underlying electrical infra structure. when you have a category 5 storm hitting potentially and massive storm surge, that is going to interrupt, most likely, a lot of the underlying infra structure. when fpl and other companies are going in, some of those tasks are going to be you ll have to rebuild some of this stuff. so the folks in those affected areas should just understand that if it s as simple as simply just hooking up a few more power lines that s what they will do. in those areas that will have the most severe impact it will likely require to have some reengineering, to have some structural fixes and that will require manpower but it is going to take a little more time. so people understand, fpl understands how significant and important this is to get the services back up and running. but we also understand the severity of this storm and the really, really catastrophic damage it can inflict on the