A power cooperative warned its 28,000 customers it might take two weeks to restore electricity.
Emergency officials promised trailers would arrive over the weekend to provide housing in an area that didn’t have much to begin with.
Idalia made landfall Wednesday near Keaton Beach with winds of 125 mph and a 6-foot storm surge. The fast-moving storm then tore through largely rural stretches of inland Florida and southern Georgia. . And even with high temperatures below normal, the high humidity meant sweltering late-summer days and nights, with no power to run air conditioners.
The utility was bringing extra people in from everywhere, swelling its force of 100 line workers, tree trimmers and others to more than 750. Generators were being set up to help a few restaurants and other businesses operate. Helping to clear trees are members of the Florida National Guard and the state Forestry Department, Culpepper said.
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