Ron DeSantis: “I mean, I think we would like to have an answer, you know, towards the third week of this month.”

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

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.

Fortunately, they weren’t needed for a lot of rescue missions, ’cause that demand wasn’t there, but they’ve already cleared 1,700 miles of roadway.

“I would just urge people to be very careful. There’s a lot of debris out there, particularly as you get into the northern part of the Panhandle.”