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Jewell Baggett stands beside a Christmas decoration she recovered from the wreckage of her mother’s home, as she searches for anything salvageable from the trailer home her grandfather had acquired in 1973 and built multiple additions on to over the decades, in Horseshoe Beach, Fla., after the passage of Hurricane Idalia, on Aug. 30, 2023. Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo

5:23 PM: DOE Updates on Post-Idalia Power Restoration

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that as of mid-afternoon Thursday, electrical service had been restored to almost half of those left without power as Idalia clawed its way across Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, to the Atlantic Ocean.

And that number still waiting continues to drop rapidly.