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.

Trenton Knepp talked to NBC News' Tom Llamas about riding out Hurricane Milton in his Sarasota County home and reeling from the aftermath.