For A New Key West Resident, Irma Was Her Welcome-to-town

By TIM REYNOLDS, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle
Tue, 09/19/2017 - 2:30am

KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — Prudence Duchene will never forget the day she moved to Key West. It was Aug. 30 — the day a storm brewing in the Atlantic got named Irma. Duchene, 22, was actually waiting to board her Florida-bound flight from Albany International Airport when she saw the news that the newly named tropical storm was headed toward the Keys.

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