Those Keys are just a chain of little flat islands all the way out into the ocean. I can’t imagine anybody wanting to ride that out. Even the storm chasers didn’t go out there!
Chasers did go there...and now they can’t get out. Jim Edds rode it out in Big Pine Key. Others were in Key West. I’ve been following them on Twitter.
Hemingway’s 54 six-toed cats survive Hurricane Irma inside the museum
The Florida Keys’ most popular six-toed felines are safe, the Hemingway Home Museum reports.
Nearly 55 cats with the polydactyl (six-toed) gene have been accounted for after Hurricane Irma slammed the Keys as a Category 4 storm. Saturday, the museum posted photos of cats and dedicated staff members (10 stayed on the property) who survived the storm https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/09/12/hemingways-54-six-toed-cats-survive-hurricane-irma-inside-museum/656699001/