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Miami 86 degrees
Key West 85 degrees
Tampa 87 degrees
Naples 85 degrees
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15 million Floridians in the dark
Two
days after Irma made landfall on Cudjoe Key, authorities and residents
were finally able to reach some of the Florida Keys on Tuesday.
What they found was devastating: Based on initial estimates,
25% of the houses on the chain of islands have been destroyed, the
Federal Emergency Management Agency said Tuesday. Another 65% suffered
major damage.
"Basically, every house in the Keys was impacted some way," FEMA Administrator Brock Long said.
It's
still not clear how many casualties Irma caused on the Keys.
Transportation officials are trying to determine whether bridges between
the islands can withstand any weight.
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