Beyond a week in the darkness nearly 200 thousand still without power

As of Thursday morning’s update from Lee County Electric Cooperative, more than 68,000 Cape Coral residents are still without power, accounting for the bulk of the company’s 110,000 total outages.

FPL OUTAGES AS OF 5AM, Thursday Oct. 6
Sarasota – 24,330
DeSoto – 5,870
Charlotte – 42,500
Lee – 18,560
Hendry – 70
Collier – 292
Collier, Glades, and Sarasota residents may now report outages as normal.

LCEC OUTAGES AS OF 6AM Thursday, Oct. 6
Marco Island – 2,089 out (17,493 on)
Immokalee – 140 out (15,600 on)
Carnestown – 425 out (2,814 on)
Lehigh Acres – 254 out (32,872 on)
North Fort Myers – 30,376 out (25,903 on)
Cape Coral – 68,518 out (25,758 on)
Pine Island – 7,398 out (0 on)
Sanibel – 10,946 out (0 on)