1 TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Jewel Storm’s aftermath heist 19 families displaced by storm damage; officials toting losses. nets By TONY BRITT
[email protected] $20K Power was restored to most of Lake City by Monday afternoon Friday burglary following a weekend of severe thunderstorms, but more than 19 caps 2-week spike local families remained displaced in city break-ins. from their homes and receiving disaster relief services. Shayne Morgan, Columbia By DEREK GILLIAM County emergency management
[email protected] director, said Florida Power and Light representatives told him More than $20,000 in jew- that all power had been restored elry was stolen from a local by 1 p.m. Monday, but sporadic hotel Friday, according to power outages were still being police. reported as of 5 p.m. On Sunday, The incident occurred an estimated 945 customers around dusk at Hampton remained without power. At the Inn and Suites, 450 SW peak of the storm on Saturday Florida Gateway Blvd. afternoon, an estimated 7,000 The victim, an Indiana were without power. woman, told police a num- First responders and law ED SEIFERT/Columbia County Sheriff’s Office ber of items stolen: a white enforcement officers spent hours A tree limb crashed through the roof of this home but the occupants were unhurt, according to reports. gold necklace with seven patrolling storm-impacted areas. diamonds, two yellow gold County Commissioner Ron bracelets, a sterling silver Williams said he heard of two necklace and heart pen- instances of looting, in which dant, a pair of diamond people went onto someone else’s stud earrings, a yellow gold property and removed sheet necklace with an angel and metal roofing that had been a gold bracelet with dia- blown off buildings.