Ron DeSantis: “There is no question this mission has made the state of Florida safer.”

Walton County is now up to 80% restored, remaining customers are expected to have power tonight into early tomorrow.

Look, you got to jump through bureaucratic hoops with this process. It’s just is what it is. And our folks did that very, very well. And so, that was submitted last night. They have it and we expect a decision on that very, very quickly.

“So, somebody, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t have spent money by bringing the guard or doing this. You didn’t need them.’ Well, you don’t know that.”

Right now, 93% of traffic signals are operational in storm impacted areas, including 320 that are operating on temporary general generator power.