In Florida, Hurricane Idalia has left more than 200,000 people without power.

Hurricane Idalia, which hit the southeastern coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico, left about 200,000 people without electricity. This is evidenced by the data of the monitoring resource PowerOutage.us.

According to the portal, more than 201 thousand Americans remain without light.

US President Joe Biden plans to address the population in connection with the state of emergency in the state of Florida.

Tropical storm “Idalia” disrupted power supply to several areas of the western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio. It is noted that due to wind gusts and heavy rainfall, about 60% of consumers currently do not have access to electricity. In total, more than 570 thousand people live in the region.

Governor Ron Desantis declared a state of emergency back on Tuesday. It was predicted that the storm hitting land on Wednesday would bring dangerous flooding to the area and large amounts of rainfall.

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