Parking rules are suspended providing handicapped, driveways and danger are not a problem. Streets open and close at random around town as clean up continues. There has been some grumbling from the leadership of the city about people throwing stuff out that is not hurricane damaged. I think that might be a tough complaint to follow up on. Clean up is already tough enough on everyone.
Nothing is quite back to normal. AS hard as one tries to ignore the weird bits.
I am trying to look for color where I can. I am walking Rusty in his old haunts and he seems to enjoy them ignoring the devastation.
Happily its mostly vegetation that's torn up.
Trash everywhere and cars need fixing. I changed a car battery for a friend the afternoon I took these pictures:
And tourists are being enticed to return. I hope they are ready to be patient and keep their expectations low:
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Maybe it is because the landscape debris has been sitting for a couple weeks now, but much of it looks very dry/dead. I am wondering how much the hurricane just cleaned out the dead/old stuff that nobody pruned. It will take a while but it looks like much survived to make KW green again.
Key West will come back faster. The trailer parks and flooded homes further up the Keys will be tougher. Developers will be angling to get ride of unsafe trailers to replace them with expensive houses.
We have a rental booked in Truman Annex in the middle of November, will KW be reopened by then?
Thanks
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Key West officially opened yesterday. Fantasy Fest will probably be a lot less elaborate than usual this year but I expect by then the city will be back. There will be less vegetation and the number of working people coming back remains in doubt. For the next three weeks things will be a struggle. Trash is piled up rlectricityvcomes and goes and many businesses are struggling to reopen still. Big "open " signs are up because it is not yet the norm. Visiting Key West for the moment requires patience and limited expectations. No one wants to be around whining tourists, trust me on that.
Thanks, we won't have high expectations, as long as there are some restaurants to feed us we'll be happy. We hope some of the beaches will be open, and a few attractions to visit.
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