The power here surged off and right back on today……but there’s many in Florida without power today and they really haven’t said yet what has happened. The nuclear reactor near my home, Turkey Point, shut down. Street lights out…….traffic will be a nightmare if they don’t get it up before rush hour, because these people can’t drive on a good day. They’re reporting no criminal activity, but they aren’t saying what DID cause it. Oh, and when power goes out and traffic lights are out, the school buses can’t run due to a liability issue. Now what kind of sense does that make? Let’s have thousands of people running around causing more traffic to try and pick school kids up rather than having fewer vehicles on the road with school buses. Why oh why oh why oh did I ever leave Ohio. ha!

The lights went out across a wide swath of southeast Florida Tuesday, leaving up to 800,000 customers without electricity, Florida Power & Light said.

The outage struck at about 1:30 p.m. Eastern, knocking out power in towns and cities along Florida’s east coast in a corridor stretching from parts of Miami to Daytona, a spokeswoman for the company told cable news channel CNN.

She said the cause of the outage was still under investigation, adding that the company had already begun the process of bringing the power grid back on line. She declined to say when it was likely that power would be fully restored to all areas affected.

Local media initially reported that the problem may have been caused by equipment failure at a substation of Florida Power & Light, a unit of Juno Beach-based FPL Group

There were also reports that the Turkey Point nuclear power plant, a big facility near Miami, had tripped off line.

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