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\nPre-Irma Duval Street Key West<\/p>\n
Editor’s Note: Very emotional day yesterday, shared with a bunch of shipmates who also remember. The news coverage this morning, like the eye of a storm, has wobbled back to the usual political sniping. We had two really bad things happen from the Skies over the past two week, but this is not the catastrophe we were hearing about 24 x &. Of course, I don’t have to return to a flooded house or an overturned yacht. Of course, it is better to see it than not to be able to. Marlow, a long-time resident of Key West, has an appreciation on what happened.<\/p>\n
– Vic<\/p>\n
Key West: Where the Sidewalk Ends<\/p>\n
\nPre-Irma Duval Street Key West<\/p>\n
Author’s note: Key West has no phone service, power, water or flushing toilets today, even though it avoided a catastrophic blow from Irma. Not that the locals mind. By Sunday afternoon, as Irma\u2019s winds continued to pound the island, two bars on Duval Street had already reopened. They were packed.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile in other news, the Department of Defense announced Monday that all 10,000 people who chose to stay in the Keys during Irma might have to be evacuated until basic services come back. There are tens of thouands of Keys residents on the mianland who are chomping at the bit to go back to their island homes to see what is left and begin their island lives once again.<\/p>\n
Key West is the place where the sidewalk ends
\nIt is far beyond where roads begin
\nIts beach sand is soft and beige
\nThere the sun is hot and bright
\nThere Irma ground the trees bare
\nLeaving no shade to cool us, only the wind<\/p>\n
Should we leave this waterless place where the winds blew everything away
\nStark streets full of people’s stuff and debris
\nPast the gardens where our flowers grew
\nShall we walk about slow
\nAnd maybe look for signs of where we should go
\nIn this place where the sidewalk ends<\/p>\n
Yes, Key West life is treasured and slow
\nBut there’re no arrows that point where to go
\nIrma wiped clean our chalked path
\nBut two bars just opened, they’re packed
\nIn this place where the sidewalk ends<\/p>\n
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