The news continues to be encouraging – but no hotel power quite yet:

The hotel is still on generators and remains ready to reopen once utility power has been restored.  All other utilities (water, sewer, internet, landline phones) are working.

I’ve been in daily contact with the hotel Sales Director, and he reports that Florida Power & Light is on the hotel property today (Sunday) replacing a switchbox.  He’s been told by FP&L this is the last item needed to restore hotel power but until everything’s been energized, we won’t know for sure.

I’m very sensitive to the extremely unfortunate timing of this hurricane event and need to either keep or cancel travel plans – especially for our international attendees.

If power is not restored by Monday morning (Oct.14), the ICC and IEEE will begin discussions on canceling the meeting. Since a contract is involved, we’ll start the process Monday morning with hope that power will be restored later in the day.  If not, then as early as possible on Tuesday (Oct. 15), I’ll send out notification that the meeting has been canceled with information on refunds, etc.

Once hotel power has again been fully restored, I’ll send out an immediate update.

Thanks for your patience,

Bert

Albert H. Spear III

ICC Chair (2024-2025)