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RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. —  Virtually all East Coast customers of the land'southward biggest provider of power should have power restored past Sunday, and western customers will exist fully upwardly and running five days after, Florida Power & Light said Tuesday.

Visitor spokesman Rob Gould said a preliminary assessment of Hurricane Irma's devastation indicated damage to the electrical infrastructure was not as all-encompassing equally expected. That included the western coast, which took a straight hit from Irma.

"What we're seeing is encouraging, peculiarly on the w coast where our chief manual structures take not come down," said Gould, whose company provides service to well-nigh half the state'southward 10.5 million power accounts. He said there would be a few exceptions where damage was particularly severe.

About one-half of the land'southward 21 1000000 residents were without power. Gov. Rick Scott said more than 30,000 out-of-country utility workers were aiding the effort to plough lights on across the country.

Meanwhile, parts of Florida inched back toward normal. Workers cleared roads and replenished gas supplies, and residents drifted back from shelters and far-abroad havens and many flights resumed, although flooded streets remained in some areas.

The White House said President Trump would visit the state Thursday.

"My concern continues for all impacted by the hurricanes," first lady Melania Trump tweeted. "Volition fly to #Florida on Thursday w @potus to survey the damages from #HurricaneIrma."

Irma smashed into Florida on Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane with 130-mph winds. The storm brought havoc to Georgia and South Carolina also. Irma was blamed for more than a dozen deaths in the region, including at least 7 in Florida. At least 35 people were killed in the Caribbean final week.

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The U.S. Agronomics Department said Tuesday that Irma victims who are recipients of nutrient stamps can use them for hot foods, commonly a violation of the plan's rules. It also is directing Florida and Georgia to upshot food stamps more quickly this month.

Irma starting time fabricated landfall on the Florida Keys, so again subsequently Sunday on Marco Island on the land's Gulf Coast. The storm roared northward, flooding streets, toppling trees and power lines and snapping structure cranes across most of the state.

Scott said all the state'due south highway and turnpikes were open, and a massive effort was underway to get gas to service stations. Many roads were backed upwards for miles as residents made the pilgrimage back to their homes.

Regime on the Florida Keys on Tuesday began allowing residents and workers to return to the upper islands in the chain — Central Largo, Tavernier and Islamorada. The sunday was shining and the sky was blue, but the impairment to the islands, particularly the lower islands, was catastrophic.

FEMA Administrator Brock Long said the agency was inspecting bridges to the lower Keys to ensure their prophylactic. He said nearly 25% of homes on the Keys were destroyed, and another two-thirds were damaged.

"Basically, every house on the Keys was impacted," Long said.

In Central Florida, Walt Disney World opened for business in Orlando — and the Magic Kingdom appeared untouched. Paola Pedroso, 28, traveled from Brazil with her bridal party. They stayed at a hotel near Universal Studios during the worst of the storm.

"Our family unit and friends (back habitation)  were scared more than us, because everybody was talking about it," said Pedroso, a white Mickey Mouse house lid and veil atop her caput. "I idea information technology was going to exist a huge thing, merely information technology wasn't."

In Cocoa Beach, 60 miles due east of Orlando, more than 82,000 people remained without drink water while workers scrambled Monday to fix breaches in the h2o system.

"Information technology's starting to come back, simply there's no guarantees," Cocoa Metropolis Manager John Titkanich said. He said information technology could exist a few days before the water is condom to drink.

"Boil your water until the city says 'don't boil your water,'" he said.

North Florida was not exempt from Irma's wrath. Scott and Jacksonville Mayor Lenny viewed the alluvion-damaged city near the Georgia border from the air Tuesday.

"We were shocked yesterday when the flooding started happening here," Scott said. "Give thanks God everybody helped everybody."

Curry said 356 residents were rescued from the floodwaters by emergency response teams.

"It was a sight to be seen," Curry said. "Now we just begin to rebuild."

The cruise industry was returning to life. Royal Caribbean and Funfair planned to resume sailings out of Fort Lauderdale's Port Everglades afterward in the day. Carnival said it would resume sailings out of Miami on Wednesday.

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In Georgia, Irma slammed some areas with six inches or more of pelting, and Atlanta had wind gusts in backlog of 60 mph. Damage and flooding was reported in some coastal communities that saw more than than 500,000 people evacuate ahead of the storm. Tybee Island Mayor Jason Buelterman said hundreds of homes were flooded there.

Parts of South Carolina likewise saw heavy wind and pelting, and historic Charleston was among cities dealing with flooding.

Alabama and North Carolina declared states of emergency ahead of the storm, and remnants of Irma were sweeping through several other states, the National Conditions Service said.

Due north Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said National Guard concatenation-saw crews were aiding Transportation Department workers clearing roads in the western function of the country, where Irma's assault was well-nigh severe.

"Nosotros did not run across major flooding, that's very positive," Cooper said.

Rodriguez reported from Florida, Bacon from McLean, Va. Contributing: Gene Sloan, Usa TODAY; Jim Waymer, Caroline Glenn, Florida Today; Marker Barrett, The (Asheville, N.C.) Citizen-Times, and The Associated Printing.

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/09/12/hurricane-irma-weakens-tropical-depression/656442001/

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