By Patricia Sullivan
BLOUNTSTOWN, Fla. - Electricity, communications and essential services are slowly being restored to the Florida Panhandle communities that were hobbled by Hurricane Michael on Wednesday, as hundreds of thousands of residents continue to feel isolated and lack electrical power.
About 200,000 Floridians are still sleeping in the dark and unable to operate their well water pumps. Many are running out of fuel in their vehicles. While this number has dropped from its peak of about
400,000, much of the power restoration has happened in places like Tallahassee, where the storm was not as severe and where restaurants and stores began reopening this weekend. The hardest-hit counties in the Panhandle remain in a primitive state.
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