Hundreds of people were without power and thousands remained in shelters Thursday more as emergency crews assessed the Sarasota, Manatee area.

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As of 7 a.m. Friday, more than 155,000 power company customers in Manatee County were experiencing outages, according to Find Energy. In Sarasota County, nearly 140,000 customers were without power Friday morning, or about 46 percent of the county. But that’s progress — around 80 percent of Manatee was without power Thursday morning.