4.2 million home businesses million people without power wednesday afternoon florida georgia carolinas hurricane irma batter region peak 7.8 million customers monday local utilities say remain outages florida power light service area southern eastern part state fpl state big power company say 1.9 million power wednesday 3.6 million monday nextera energy inc-owned fpl serve nearly million home businesses expect restore essentially customers eastern portion florida weekend harder-hit western portion state sept. 22. take long restore tornado damage severe flood fpl say outages duke energy corp serve northern central part florida fell 922,000 wednesday peak 1.2 million monday accord company website irma hit southwestern florida sunday morning category storm second severe five-step saffir-simpson scale monday weaken tropical depression georgia utilities report outages decline 550,000 wednesday peak around 1.3 million monday big power utilities florida units emera inc southern co also operate big electric company georgia alabama factbox 4.2 million still without power u.s. southeast irma