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Danielle Chanzes

Danielle is a reporter for WUFT News who can be reached by calling 352-392-6397 or emailing news@wuft.org.

  • Jackie Leonis feeds a duck, named Aflack by the neighborhood, outside of her home in the Lamplighter Mobile Home Community in Gainesville, Fla., Nov. 18, 2017. Following Hurricane Irma, her utility bill doubled due to GRU estimates and forced her to cut down on several expenses, including food for her pets. "It feels like you can't get out of it," said Leonis, who lives on a fixed income of $1200 a month. "You try to put a little money away to make a better life for yourself and then some emergency comes along." Photo by Andrea Cornejo.
    State of emergency
    Danielle Chanzes
    In a county where the poverty rate is 22 percent, electricity costs are some of the highest in the state and the poorest residents spend an uncommonly high portion of income on electricity bills, just paying those bills has become an emergency for some.