POLK COUNTY, Fla. — There are hundreds of Duke energy trucks staged in Davenport to get power back on in Florida after Hurricane Dorian's rain bands clear the east coast but it appears most of them won’t be needed.

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A little more than 20,000 are without power statewide, a small number given hurricanes in the past.

Some of the 350 trucks staged in Davenport will now turn their attention to the Carolinas as hurricane Dorian looks to target it later this week.

Duke energy says coordinating hundreds of crews across the country is no small task - but given Dorian's track - it wanted to make sure it had enough crews in Florida if the storm got closer to the coast than it ultimately did.

"For us, from a preparedness standpoint, in the event the hurricane hits and there is flooding and road closures you can’t get the linemen in," said Sally Thelen with Duke Energy. "To get the power back on and we’ve been on the wrong side of that before so that’s why it’s critical for us to get these crews mobilized and in place prior to Dorian hitting so we can hit the ground running in the event there were outages."

Later today this staging area in Davenport will be crashed down as some of the linesmen here head north to the Carolinas.  

They will re-stage off the coast there and have another long wait to see if this hurricane delivers a powerful blow to that part of the country.