Ron DeSantis: “Backfill wasn’t a good word to use, because why would the state want to backfill excessive spending?”

“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.”

We now have essentially full restoration in Bay County, Okaloosa is over 96% restored, and Washington County’s over 91% were restored.

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

At the same time, I mean, we’ve had some [storms] where there’ve been a lot more [deaths].