{"id":25718,"date":"2022-09-29T10:04:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=25718"},"modified":"2022-09-29T10:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:04:31","slug":"lakeland-electric-is-assessing-damage-and-restoring-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/09\/29\/lakeland-electric-is-assessing-damage-and-restoring-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Electric is assessing damage and restoring power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"259\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lakeland-electric-1024x259-1024x259.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lakeland-electric-1024x259.png 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lakeland-electric-1024x259-300x76.png 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lakeland-electric-1024x259-768x194.png 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland Electric is assessing damage and restoring power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Our crews are performing damage assessments and are restoring power as quickly and safely as possible.<\/li><li>At 9:00 a.m. we are reporting 63,500 customers without power.<\/li><li>3,000 customers have already been restored.<\/li><li>An estimated restoration time will be shared as soon as possible.<\/li><li>The Call Center is only responding to storm-related calls today. 863-834-9535<\/li><li>Over 100 mutual aid from Texas and Tennessee are arriving today and tomorrow to assist with power restoration.<\/li><li>Thanks to our Smart Grid System, your power outage is automatically reported to Lakeland Electric without you needing to call.<\/li><li>Customers are encouraged to report downed poles, downed wires and tree limbs on wires to 863-834-9535.<ul><li>Stay away from downed power lines. It is impossible to tell if a power line is energized by just looking at it. Always treat it as extremely dangerous.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Customers can find post-storm tips like generator safety, our restoration process, and what to do if your electric components are damaged.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.kubra.com\/a_published\/lakelandelectric\/assets-docs\/hurricane%20guide%202022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hurricane Guide<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakeland Electric is assessing damage and restoring power. Our crews are performing damage assessments and are restoring power as quickly and safely as possible. At 9:00 a.m. we are reporting&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[3554],"class_list":["post-25718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-lakeland-electric-is-assessing-damage-and-restoring-power"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}