Lamar Gore, a local contractor, was helping clean out his daughter’s art store on 2nd Street. A lifelong resident of the area, Gore was grateful they were without power for only six hours after Hurricane Idalia made landfall.

“All the times that we’ve had even lesser storms than this. [Hurricane] Hermine wasn’t quite as bad as this but…I live in Rosewood, so we were out of power for five days. They had power on the island before we had power there. After the [Idalia’s] eye passed us, we had power within six hours. Unheard of,” Gore said.