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We have a lot of landscape damage. no structural damage and anywhere we saw on the island. a lot of trees are down. limbs and leaves all over the place. we are dodging limbs and trees. other than that, we are happy to say i don't see any structural damage in key west. kelly: ernest hemingway was the famous writer who enjoyed life in key west. that museum is important in terms of his legacy and life as a writer. but to the neighbors what's your message to them about the kind of storm they had to endure and overcome? >> if you are in a low-lying area or flood zone consider evacuation. we have a ...

Dropped down dramatically. that spared us the worst of the storm surge. so, we had a surge of about three feet but it did not cause nir flooding of structures we've been able to determine so far. some apartment buildings lost their roofs and we've had to relocate people to other city facilities, our community center. generally speaking, there's not a lot of structural damage, although the landscape damage is just very, very significant. >> how many people are without power? >> well, in our city of 20,000, almost all of them are without power. many are without water because when the trees get u...

What kind of damage have you dealt with? >> thanks for having us on. for me, not much. no structural damage. my beach house got a little sand blasting from the category two gust winds coming up the beach from the southeast. but a lot of landscape damage obviously. some big parents that are 70 plus years in the back yard, lost one of those. honestly, minimal stuff in the context of what we just went through. >> neil: what is amazing, a lot of folks opted to stay. i don't know whether it was a voluntary evacuation where you are, but we heard a lot of people say i can't leave, it's a nightmare on...