Florida's major power company prepares for this year's hurricanes by dealing with a fake one

(9 May 2024)
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West Palm Beach, Florida - 9 May 2024
1. Workers in Florida Power & Light command center during hurricane drill
2. Map simulation of storm track
3. Various of workers in command center
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ed De Varona, Florida Power & Light Company:
"Today is our hurricane storm drill. As I've mentioned, this has been going on for three days already with planning activities, and now is the actual first day of restoration after the storm impacted. So we had a category four hurricane that came into the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area, and it impacted us yesterday. We are now here the first full day of restoration after that storm. Our our entire organization is working through the crew movements, the assessments and understanding how quickly we're going to be able to restore service to our customers."
5. Map simulation of storm track
6. Various of workers monitoring storm during drill
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ed De Varona, Florida Power & Light Company:
"For us, it is very significant to make sure that our organization is ready to go during an emergency event like a hurricane. And so having the training and processes checked and challenged through a drill like this one, like a hurricane dry run, allows us to then take any of those gaps that we may be able to identify and work them into our process prior to the actual peak of the hurricane season being upon us."
8. Worker showing power grid inside mobile command center
9. Utility truck in front of building
STORYLINE:
Florida's largest power company is preparing for this year's hurricane season by pretending a major storm already hit.

Florida Power & Light this week is conducting its annual mock hurricane drill, simulating how it would respond if a hurricane strikes the state and devastates the power grid.

The fake Hurricane Benito with its imaginary 135 mph (215 kph) winds follows the real hurricanes Idalia and Ian, which seriously damaged portions of the state over the last two years.

The National Hurricane Center is predicting the upcoming Atlantic and Gulf season will exceed the yearly average of seven tropical storms and seven hurricanes, with three of them major. Not all make landfall. 

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