It's a really narrow place. You have the Atlantic Ocean on the East & The Gulf of Mexico on the West. In some places they lterally are only yards away from each other.
There is one road in & out. Route 1. Once you are out of the keys you drive through 100's of miles of swamp before you hit civilization.
One day after Hurricane Irma residents are upset that they are not permitted
back to their homes.
They don't seem to understand that the place is dangerous!
That maybe it's for their own good that they are not permitted to drive down
Highway One?
That maybe they should give the people that know what they are doing a few more days?
Or maybe the people that know what they are doing should just let the first 100
cars demanding to get back to their home drive on through?
That would not be right though, would it?
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Hey, there, handsome soldier!!! WOW! that/those bridge(s)--yikes!
cousin Annette GLADUE LIVES IN MARATHON AND HAS FOR OVER50 YRS.
Why do they use the term "Keys"
Why are they called the Keys?
Apr 22, 2008, 6:43 AM
The Spanish took the word "cayo' from the Taino Indians of Hispanola and Cuba referring to small islands. The Spanish normally used "isla" for island and "islet" for small island. In the New World, they used "cayo" and "cayuelo" for a very small island. (The English used "Cay' as in Hawks Cay) It ultimately was pronounce 'key'. Key West was once Cayo Hueso (Kie-O Hwae-So) meaning small island of bones or Bone Island. When the Spaniards arrived, they found it littered with human bones. There's two theories about it... 1) This was a funeral island for the local indian tribes and 2) This was the place of a last huge battle between the Seminole and Calussa indians with the final few Calussa excaping to Cuba by canoe.
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