Robbie's of Islamorada is a traveler's icon. Six months after Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys, the granddaughter of the founder talks to us about rebuilding, landscaping and what the islands need most.
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After Irma: We make landfall in the Florida Keys (part three in a series)
This Islamorada brewery has an interesting challenge six months after Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys — even though they didn't have damage.
Will Irma bring a second Hurricane of 1928 to Lake Okeechobee?
It woke up old Okeechobee and the monster began to roll in his bed. —Zora Neale Hurston
The monster is not Irma. The monster is Lake Okeechobee, and I don't want or need to be right, but the more I watch the projected path of Irma the more I think about the cover story I wrote for Creative Loafing's June 1 print issue: The Monster Next Time.
"The current condition of Herbert Hoover poses a grave and imminent danger... [The dike] needs to be fixed. We can only add that it needs to be fixed now, and it needs to be fixed right. We firmly believe that the region’s future depends on it.”
Lloyd's of London risk assessment of Lake Okeechobee — not from 1928, but this millennium
Here's Irma's projected path: