TAMPA, Florida — Hurricane Idalia officially made landfall Wednesday morning along Florida's Big Bend. But as it made its long trek along the Gulf of Mexico, it brought threats of strong wind, storm surge and power outages to the Tampa Bay area.
"You are going to lose power if you are in the path of this storm. You should assume that — that is going to happen. And this goal is going to be rapid restoration of power," Gov. Ron DeSantis said in an earlier news conference.
Here are the latest power outages as of 8 p.m. Wednesday across the Tampa Bay area.
Duke's outage map shows:
- 3,125 customers without power in Pinellas County
- 3,292 customers without power in Citrus County
- 73 customers without power in Hernando County
- 61 customers without power in Pasco County
There are 22,010 power outages across Florida, with 2,100 in Sarasota County and 1,400 in Manatee County.
TECO's outage map shows 195 power outages near Tampa.
Hurricane Idalia made landfall around 7:45 a.m. along Florida's Big Bend near Keaton Beach. It reached a Category 4 storm before weakening slightly to a still-dangerous Category 3 hurricane.
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