Staff report
ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – As of 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, 16,042 customers in Alachua County do not have power, down from 86,761 after Hurricane Helene passed through. Power outage data comes from FindEnergy and does not include municipal utilities like City of Alachua and City of Newberry that do not provide outage maps.
Current outages by utility:
- Clay Electric Coop – 9,282
- GRU – 3,813
- Duke Energy – 2,317
- Central Florida Electric Coop – 627
- Florida Power & Light – 3
High Springs reports that dozens of utility trucks from Colorado, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia are in the area, working on restoring power.
GRU CEO Ed Bielarski reports that crews are working overlapping 16-hour shifts, and crews from Leesburg, Starke, Orlando, and Kissimmee in Florida, along with Lubbock, Texas, and Lafayette, Louisiana, are providing mutual aid. Bielarski said the utility had 57 broken poles, 19 blown transformers, 406 downed wires, and 97 trees down on wires.