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83° F, Partly Cloudy/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/CW4WF6DXWZE3VJ4XNAY6O7KPLA.jpg "Duke Energy trucks are staged the parking lot at Tropicana Field in preparation for Hurricane Ian on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022 in St. Petersburg.")
The numbers have steadily declined since Thursday morning, Tampa Electric Co. and Duke Energy say.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/7WGWQPS5SJA57MGRCQCYL5RV4U.JPG "Water remains on the homes at Palmetto Palms Mobile Home Park off Summerlin Road on Thursday, Sep 29, 2022, which was mostly destroyed after Hurricane Ian made landfall overnight on Wednesday.")
The cost of the storm could fall on the federal government or homeowners themselves.
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The Doc Ford’s owner and his wife, Wendy, couldn’t be reached for a while, but said he and his wife are “still here.”
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/KIX23UFJRRFNPI5PURJH6GGAVM.jpg "Pedestrians navigate power lines strewn across the bridge in Matlacha after Hurricane Ian devastated Florida. Damage to the bridge from the hurricane made the bridge passable only by foot.")
Rescuers have evacuated stunned survivors cut off by Hurricane Ian on Florida’s largest barrier island, and the state’s death toll has risen sharply amid recovery efforts.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/JZ76J6WXLBH3FBVQOG5272ONWE.PNG "Before-and-after photos from southwestern Florida show the destruction wrought by Hurricane Ian when it hit the area as a powerful Category 4 storm earlier this week.")
The before-and-after photos show areas that were dazzling just days ago, but are now torn to shreds.
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DeSantis announced that Elon Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO, has donated 120 Starlink satellites
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/TNUSWAC73VHF5LMWJ4KZI6LKEU.JPG "Christopher Smith, 72, who was recently diagnosed with cancer, rests inside his Punta Gorda home on Friday after sheltering from Hurricane Ian with his wife earlier in the week.")
Christopher Smith, who stared down Charley, is fighting crippling cancer and didn’t want to go to a shelter.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/SHV3UD22O5BE5J6DIZ7PFC6CNQ.JPG "Steve Mitchell, 80, sits in a friend's second-floor condo at Venetian Bayview in Naples while waiting for the fire department to come carry him down the stairs to his first-floor condo which flooded in the storm surge during Hurricane Ian, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022 in Naples.")
Neighbors dragged one man up a flight of stairs to save his life.
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Some residents said evacuation orders came too late. Gov. Ron DeSantis said forecasts left few options.
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