Florida utility scrambles to return power to Miami-Dade, Broward counties.

Publication: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Byline: John Dorschner

Aug. 30--Residents in a large swath of Miami-Dade County may have to swelter in the summer heat until as late as Friday evening, Florida Power & Light officials said Monday.

"Oh, God," said Maryann Lynne of Pinecrest, who lives in one of 188,396 South Florida homes still without power. "I'm really upset with them, but I don't have a choice. There's not another electric company."

FPL officials said all work in Broward County should be finished by Thursday evening, and work in some areas of Miami-Dade will be completed by Wednesday, but a broad section of central Dade may...

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