Hurricane Francine: OUC sends crews to Louisiana to help restore power

ORLANDO, Fla. — Central Florida is stepping up to help those impacted by Hurricane Francine.

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On Wednesday, a 17-member power restoration team from Orlando Utilities Commission headed to Louisiana.

Their mission will be to help bring power back to those who were left in the dark following the storm.

OUC power restoration crew / Courtesy: Orlando Utilities Commission OUC's 17-member crew left Central Florida on Wednesday to offer support in Louisiana. (Orlando Utilities Commission)

The crew will stage in Houma, Louisiana. That’s about 60 miles southwest of New Orleans.

READ: Francine makes landfall in southern Louisiana

OUC’s crew will assist Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government, a power company that serves about 13,0000 customers in and around Houma.

Tropical Weather Morgan City firefighters respond to a home fire during Hurricane Francine in Morgan City, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Lazaro Cardoso, 11, leans far into the powerful winds coming from the eye wall of Hurricane Francine as he and his dad, Hugo Gonzales, stay at a hotel Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in Houma, La., that was being powered by a generator. The family lives not far from the hotel but they decided to stay at it since they said they always lose power during powerful storms. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather An air mattress blows in wind from Hurricane Francine in New Orleans, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) (Matthew Hinton/AP)

APTOPIX Tropical Weather The entrance to Lake Ponchartrain Causeway is closed due to Hurricane Francine in Metairie, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. The causeway is the longest continuous bridge over water in the world. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) (Matthew Hinton/AP)

Tropical Weather Morgan City firefighters respond to a home fire during Hurricane Francine in Morgan City, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Orleans Levee District Police patrol Lakeshore Drive along Lake Ponchartrain as wind and rain pick up from Hurricane Francine in New Orleans, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) (Matthew Hinton/AP)

Tropical Weather Cameron Henry looks at the water build up from Hurricane Francine in front of the levee protection, background, along Lakeshore Drive along Lake Ponchartrain in New Orleans, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) (Matthew Hinton/AP)

Tropical Weather Conrad Bach gets doused with lake water while looking at waves from the wind and rain from Hurricane Francine along Lakeshore Drive along Lake Ponchartrain in New Orleans, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) (Matthew Hinton/AP)

Tropical Weather Morgan City firefighters respond to a home fire during Hurricane Francine in Morgan City, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Having never before experienced the powerful forces of a hurricane, meteorologist Max Claypool of Memphis, Tenn. tries to see if the powerful winds blowing from the Hurricane Francine eye wall could lift him further in the air on Wednesday, Sept.11, 2024, Houma, La. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Melanie Galindo's hair flies in the swirl of fast-moving air as the eye wall of Hurricane Francine crosses into the Houma area in Louisiana on Wednesday, September 11, 2024. (Chris Granger, The Times-Picayune via AP) (Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Conrad Bach drains water from his boot after getting doused while looking at waves from the wind from Hurricane Francine along Lakeshore Drive and Lake Ponchartrain in New Orleans, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) (Matthew Hinton/AP)

Tropical Weather Lindsey Ranney and her dog Fig fill the trunk of Ranney's car with sandbags in preparation for Hurricane Francine from a pile of sand provided by Harrison County at the end of Courthouse Boulevard in Gulfport, Miss. on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Hannah Ruhoff/The Sun Herald via AP) (Hannah Ruhoff/AP)

Tropical Weather Winds and heavy downpour on Harrison County Beaches in Pass Christian, Miss. due to Hurricane Francine Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Hunter Dawkins/The Gazebo Gazette via AP) (Hunter Dawkins/AP)

Tropical Weather Hurricane Francine floodwater rises around a statue of Mary tied to the support of an elevated home in Terrebonne Parish as the hurricane begins to make landfall along the Louisiana coast on Wednesday, Sept.11, 2024. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) ((Photo by Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Residents walk past a tree that fell on a house in the aftermath of Hurricane Francine, in Morgan City, La., Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Kim Haines surveys a tree that fell on. Her neighbor's house in the aftermath of Hurricane Francine, in Morgan City, La., Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Ron Rhodes cleans up tree debris in front of his house in the aftermath of Hurricane Francine, in Morgan City, La., Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Pier outside the East Harbor in Pass Christian, Miss. during excessive rainfall from Hurricane Francine Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Hunter Dawkins/The Gazebo Gazette via AP) (Hunter Dawkins/AP)

Tropical Weather A mangled tree blocks covers part of the street in front of a house in New Orleans' Carrollton neighborhood as Hurricane Francine hit the city with high winds and flooding rain on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill) (Kevin McGill/AP)

Tropical Weather A car is submerged to its wheel well on Neyrey Dr. as water overflows the nearby W. Napoleon Ave drainage canal after a deluge of rain from Hurricane Francine in Metairie, La., in Jefferson Parish, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) (Matthew Hinton/AP)

Tropical Weather Rainfall from Hurricane Francine makes the white roof of the Caesars Superdome, left, difficult to see in New Orleans, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) (Matthew Hinton/AP)

APTOPIX Tropical Weather People watch Hurricane Francine from inside the Sheraton on Canal Street in New Orleans, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (David Grunfeld/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (David Grunfield/AP)

Tropical Weather The W. Napoleon Ave drainage canal, behind guard rail, is about even with the road which is submerged with floodwaters. The W. Napoleon drainage canal overtopped after a deluge of rain from Hurricane Francine in Metairie, La., in Jefferson Parish, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) (Matthew Hinton/AP)

Tropical Weather Morgan City firefighters respond to a home fire during Hurricane Francine in Morgan City, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Signage bends in the wind as Hurricane Francine passes through Morgan City, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Morgan City firefighters respond to a home fire during Hurricane Francine in Morgan City, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Lazaro Cardoso, 11, leans far into the powerful winds coming from the eye wall of Hurricane Francine as he and his dad, Hugo Gonzales, stay at a hotel in Houma, Louisiana that was being powered by a generator on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in Houma, La. The family lives not far from the hotel but they decided to stay at it since they said they always lose power during powerful storms. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (Chris Granger/AP)

APTOPIX Tropical Weather Having never before experienced the powerful forces of a hurricane, meteorologist Max Claypool of Memphis, Tenn. tries to see if the powerful winds blowing from the Hurricane Francine eye wall could lift him further in the air on Wednesday, Sept.11, 2024, Houma, La. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Hotels guests at the Fairfield by Marriott Inn & Suites step out to look at some of the damage, top center, to the hotel as the eye of Hurricane Francine moves over the area causing a short respite in the rain, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in in Houma, La. (Chris Grange/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Hotels guests at the Fairfield by Marriott Inn & Suites stand in a protected entryway as they take video of the powerful forces coming from the Hurricane Francine eye wall as it moves across the south on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in Houma, La. (Photo by Chris Granger, The Times-Picayune)/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) ((Photo by Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Cameron Henry, left, Owen Henry, and Stone Ridgeway, watch as Orleans Levee District Police patrol as rain and wind builds up from Hurricane Francine on Lakeshore Drive along Lake Ponchartrain in New Orleans, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) (Matthew Hinton/AP)

Tropical Weather Louisiana Meteorologist Jay Grymes speaks Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in Baton Rouge, La., as the state of Louisiana prepares for Hurricane Francine's arrival. (Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP) (Hilary Scheinuk/AP)

Tropical Weather North Street Plaza prepares for Hurricane Francine Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024 in Pass Christian, Miss. (Hunter Dawkins/The Gazebo Gazette via AP) (Hunter Dawkins/AP)

Tropical Weather Flood waters begin to build on Clark Avenue in Pass Christian, Miss. before Hurricane Francine Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Hunter Dawkins/The Gazebo Gazette via AP) (Hunter Dawkins/AP)

Tropical Weather Bridges are closed just miles from the Gulf of Mexico as the effects of Hurricane Francine are felt along the Louisiana coast in Terrebonne Parish on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Rising water has no where to go around a drainage opening, center, in Dulac as the effects of Hurricane Francine are felt along the Louisiana coast on Wednesday, Sept.11, 2024. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Seth Tartaglia and his dog Magnolia Jane check out the waves and winds in Frenier Landing, La., ahead of Hurricane Francine, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (David Grunfeld/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (David Grunfeld/AP)

Tropical Weather Tammy Corey, a clerk at a mostly boarded up Birdies Food and Fuel, keeps the main door windows free of condensation, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in Luling, La., ahead of Hurricane Francine. (David Grunfeld/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (David Grunfeld/AP)

Tropical Weather Jason Bledsoe hauls rope to a houseboat in preparation of moving it to a safer dock, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in Bayou Gauche, La., ahead of Hurricane Francine. (David Grunfeld/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (David Grunfeld/AP)

Tropical Weather A customer buys water at a mostly boarded up Birdies Food and Fuel, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in Luling, La., ahead of Hurricane Francine. (David Grunfeld/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (David Grunfeld/AP)

Tropical Weather Sparse traffic moves along Interstate 10, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, near Frenier Landing, La., ahead of Hurricane Francine. (David Grunfeld/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (David Grunfeld/AP)

Tropical Weather Joe Dempster, aboard the "Never Satisfied, left, and Jason Lireette, right, prepare to move a boat to a safer dock, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in Bayou Gauche, La., ahead of Hurricane Francine. (David Grunfeld/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (David Grunfeld/AP)

Tropical Weather Francine This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken at 4:01 p.m. EDT and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows Hurricane Francine as it approaches landfall over Louisiana, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (NOAA via AP) (Uncredited/AP)

Tropical Weather A resident of Dulac walks his dog around rising water as the outer edges of Hurricane Francine arrive along the Louisiana coast on Wednesday, Sept.11, 2024. (Chris Granger/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) ((Photo by Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Dulac residents, top left, sit on their front porch as they watch water rise around their elevated home as the effects of Hurricane Francine are felt along the Louisiana coast on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) ((Photo by Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Louisiana Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry speaks Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in Baton Rouge, La., as the state of Louisiana prepares for Hurricane Francine's arrival. (Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP) (Hilary Scheinuk/AP)

Tropical Weather A handwritten sign is placed on the front door of Ceana's Cajun Cookin' restaurant informing customers they will reopen if they have electricity as Hurricane Francine begins to make landfall in south Louisiana on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Chris Granger /The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) ((Photo by Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Harrison County officials workon Bayou Portage bridge in Pass Christian, Miss. in preparation of Hurricane Francine Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Hunter Dawkins/The Gazebo Gazette via AP) (Hunter Dawkins/AP)

Tropical Weather Sandbags and plastic line the door thresholds of a Bourbon Street nightclub in New Orleans' French Quarter, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, as the city was bracing for high winds and possible flooding as Hurricane Francine approached Louisiana's coast. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill) (Kevin McGill/AP)

Tropical Weather Sandbags and plastic line the threshold of an entrance to the the Williams Research Center in New Orleans' French Quarter, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, as the city was bracing for high winds and possible flooding from as Hurricane Francine approached Louisiana's coast. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill) (Kevin McGill/AP)

Tropical Weather Boarded windows and sandbags cover the windows of a Bourbon Street bar in New Orleans' French Quarter, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, as the city was bracing for high winds and possible flooding as Hurricane Francine approached Louisiana's coast. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill) (Kevin McGill/AP)

Tropical Weather Rainwater accumulates around Nolan and Macie Melancon as they fill up sandbags for their home located a few miles away in Houma, La., as the region gets ready for the arrival of Hurricane Francine on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Chris Granger /The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Crews board the windows of the Cash Magic gas station which ran out of gas south of Houma, La., as the region gets ready for the arrival of Hurricane Francine on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Motorists fill gas tanks at Keith's Superstore in Waveland, Miss. on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, ahead of Hurricane Francine. (Hannah Ruhoff/The Sun Herald via AP) (Hannah Ruhoff/AP)

Tropical Weather Maintenance workers for Keith's Superstores put up plywood on the Pass Christian, Miss. location in preparation for Hurricane Francine on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Hannah Ruhoff/The Sun Herald via AP) (Hannah Ruhoff/AP)

Tropical Weather Luis Morfin ratchets his trailer to jack supports as he prepares for Hurricane Francine at a trailer park in Morgan City, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Melanie Favila talks about the impending Hurricane Francine after she returned to her trailer to retrieve important documents at a trailer park, in Morgan City, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. She will be staying with family in a house in central Morgan City. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Pat Simon, a resident of Morgan City, stops at a gas station after loading up a rental truck with possessions from his home, as he evacuates to a hotel in anticipation of Hurricane Francine, in Morgan City, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Kevin "Choupie" Badle, 67, rides his bike with an umbrella to buy more cigarettes at the store ahead of Hurricane Francine, expected to make landfall this evening, in Stephenville, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather A customer enters one of the few gas stations open, boarded up in anticipation of Hurricane Francine, in Morgan City, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Oscar Torres, of Morgan City, enters a gas station that is boarded up in anticipation of Hurricane Francine, in Morgan City, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Outside trash cans and product displays are moved inside a boarded up gas station in anticipation of Hurricane Francine, in Morgan City, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Wanda Presa, of Amelia, La., fills her truck with gas ahead of Hurricane Francine, in Morgan City, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather A customer enters a gas station that is boarded up in anticipation of Hurricane Francine, in Morgan City, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Tropical Weather Francine Louisiana An flag is taken down off a pole as residents prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Francine along the Louisiana coast on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, in Lafitte, La. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Francine Louisiana Norman Bouisse, 76, left, and Jeremy Adam, back left, one of the captains for the 100-foot trawler Master Brandon, work at tying extra lines around a piling in their attempt to batten down their boat in anticipation of Hurricane Francine along the Louisiana coast in Lafitte on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (Chris Granger/AP)

Tropical Weather Francine Louisiana The windows of a raised historic house are boarded up as residents prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Francine along the Louisiana coast on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, in Lafitte, La. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) (Chris Granger/AP)

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