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Article reposted with permission from The News Service of Florida.
Dozens of crew members from Florida municipal utilities went to Louisiana to help restore power after Hurricane Francine, which made landfall Wednesday as a Category 2 storm, according to the Florida Municipal Electric Association. The association said nearly 80 crew members from seven utilities — the City of Tallahassee Electric Utility, Gainesville Regional Utilities, Beaches Energy Services, Ocala Electric Utility, the Orlando Utilities Commission, Fort Pierce Utilities Authority and New Smyrna Beach Utilities — had gone to Louisiana. As of 6 p.m. Eastern time, the National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Francine had made landfall in southern Louisiana with maximum sustained winds near 100 mph. “Heavy rains and hurricane-force winds are spreading inland across southern Louisiana,” the hurricane center said in an advisory.