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16,000 restoration workers. it's arguably not just the most preset, prestaged before the storm but actually in the u.s. in history. so we're ready to get at it. we're going to have some challenges today because the weather is going to prevent us from getting out, particularly with the high wind. once the wind subsides in certain areas such as miami-dade, tri-county area, moving up the east coast, we'll get about restoration. what we're saying to our customers, the real challenge on the east coast, we're talking about days. it's going to be a restoration, repairing equipment. on the west coast ...

Atlantic, biscayne bay, all of that water is going to start coming in because we are potentially within minutes of irma hitting the florida keys. she was talking about 60% of the power grid in miami beach already out. when we were talking to power officials a couple hours ago, they said they had 15,000 restoration workers who are ready to address problems that happen. the biggest prestaging they have had in florida history. having said that, it could be weeks in some of these areas. the most important thing is to survive this storm just north of where it's really getting hit, which is obviousl...

And enormous foliage. it's a 12 hour -- 12 month growing season throughout the year. as a result of that, there's a number of palm frauns, tree branches, trees, you know, they break off and they become missiles so they slam into our power lines and our substations and that's what causes the bulk of the damage. you know, we have an army of restoration workers upwards of 15,000 including our own workers and we put the call out and now have workers in from across the country, so they're standing ready and on high alert ready to go into action just as soon as the storm passes, when it's safe to do...

We'll do an assessment and kind of figure out where the hardest-hit area was. we also have agreements with utilities from other parts of the country to have restoration workers come in and assist us, so we have the manpower. it's a matter of waiting for the storm to move through. so can you give us any idea of when power may be restored to the more than 300,000 people in the dark right now? are you just still waiting for the storm to pass? >> we're basically still just waiting for the to you remember to pass. if we get a break in the weather tomorrow, we can start that assessment process. one ...