Nearly 7,000 in Clay County dealt with power outages as storms passed through, outage map showed

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – As Wednesday afternoon storms rolled through Northeast Florida, the impacts were felt in parts of Clay County, with nearly 7,000 power outages reported by the county’s utility.

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According to the Clay Electric Cooperative Outage Map, about 6,989 customers near Middleburg were without power as of 5 p.m.

While there is no clear reasoning provided for the outage, the spike in reports came as storms moved through the area, with flood advisories being put into effect between 3 and 4 p.m.

The outage map shows that most of the outages should be resolved by 6:30 p.m.

By 7:45 p.m., all outages were resolved.

Of the over 92,000 customers that the utility serves in the area, the number of those without power equaled about 7% of its customer base, the map showed.