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Power problems persist for Central Florida customers

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. — Depending on where a person lives, power is slowly being restored across Central Florida.

Hurricane Irma knocked out power Sunday night into Monday morning for hundreds of thousands of customers. More than 2 million are currently without power across the state.

Now with the addition of boil water notices and high temperatures, people are slowly growing impatient.

Channel 9's Christopher Heath was in Lake and Seminole counties and spotted Duke Energy contractors from Peoria, Illinois, working to replace snapped power poles and blown out transformers.

Some neighborhoods are split with power: One side has electricity, while the other doesn’t.

“It is so close, but I do understand that lines are down all along the Wekiva,” one resident said.

A spokesperson for Duke told Eyewitness News that each power outage is unique.

Some places will have to be rebuilt with power poles, power lines and transformers before the section of grid comes back on.

Duke Energy said all customers should have power back by midnight Sunday.

Florida Power and Light has restored power to 70 percent of its customers, and officals with the company said it should be 100 percent on Sunday.