More than 23,000 JEA customers without power at one point as thunderstorms pushed through Northeast Florida No description found
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – More than 23,000 JEA customers were without power at one point on Tuesday afternoon as thunderstorms rolled through the area.
According to the utility’s outage map , most of the outages are concentrated on the Westside, with about a thousand outages reported near Riverside.
As of 7:30 p.m., just over 9,700 customers were without power.
This is a developing story.
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