FPL Approaches Final Restoration Efforts After Hurricane Gordon
7 a.m. Monday Update
September 18, 2000

Florida Power & Light has restored power to all but 1,200 customers of the 120,000 outages caused by Hurricane/Tropical Storm Gordon. The majority of these remaining outages are in Manatee County.

Additional crews were moved into the area at daybreak to assist with final restoration efforts. FPL expects a small number of outages to be reported this morning as businesses that have been closed all weekend reopen.

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