(Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Irma has knocked out power to at least 6.4 million customers, paralyzed tanker traffic, shuttered gasoline stations and suppressed demand for natural gas.
As the storm headed up Florida’s west coast, it also threatened more than $1 billion worth of crops.
|Power challenges
NextEra Energy Inc.’s Florida Power & Light utility warned Sunday that some customers may go without power for weeks, and parts of its system may need to be rebuilt “from the ground up.”
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