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Most Of Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe Still In The Dark

September 11, 2017 / 11:00 AM EDT / CBS Miami

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – If you woke up this morning in the dark, you weren't alone.

Hurricane Irma has knocked out the power to 83 percent of Monroe County, 80 percent of Miami-Dade County and 73 percent in Broward County.

As of 11 a.m. Monday, the Florida Power & Light outage map indicated there were 816,240 outages in Miami-Dade and 634,280 in Broward.

FPL workers throughout the area making repairs as quickly as possible.

Call FPL if you have no power at 1-800-4OUTAGE.

FPL estimated that more than 3 million customers will be affected by power outages during Hurricane Irma.

FPL invested about $3 billion to fortify its electrical grid in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana.