HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — Almost half of the outages in the Tampa Bay area on Monday morning are Tampa Electric customers.
Tampa Electric is reporting more outages than any other provider in Florida. Most of those are in Hillsborough County.
What You Need To Know
- Tampa Electric is reporting more outages than any other provider in Florida. Most of those are in Hillsborough County
- TECO is using social media and YouTube to get messages to customers
- Track power outages across the Bay area
While the majority of roads have reopened since last week, Morris Bridge Road between I-75 and Cross Creek Boulevard remains closed.
The Hillsborough River has topped its banks, creating additional flooding issues.
And while the wait for floodwaters to keep draining continues, the wait for power restorations to be completed is still happening across Hillsborough County.
Over the weekend, TECO restored more than 100,000 customers, but there are still just shy of 200,000 without power.
TECO is using social media and YouTube to get messages to customers.
TECO President and CEO Archie Collins addressed what some are complaining is a slow response to power restorations in the Tampa area compared to other counties.
“Hillsborough County was closer to landfall and therefore closer to the eye and sustained more damage,” Collins said. “And taking longer to do those repairs, but the second reason is Tampa is a very congested area and it just takes, it’s slower for our workers to move about because of busy city streets.”
Meanwhile, TECO is still expecting to have all customer power restored by Thursday of this week.
Also, Hillsborough County schools is still making decisions about classes.
One of those reasons is because of these power outages.
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