среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

Welcome to Key West: Have a beer, watch the storm

KEY WEST, Fla. _ This beautiful small island is like its own country: People don't like to be ordered around, especially when it disrupts commerce. And business here is all about tourism, fishing and drinking.

Major emphasis is placed on the latter. Live and let overly indulge is the way of things, and that applies to men who walk down the main drag with parrots on their head, just for the heck of it, as well as to old timers who congregate on the sidewalk to share morning beers.

Hurricane Ike made no never mind to the 25,000 locals who call the southernmost city in the continental U.S. their home. Some boarded up. Many did not. On Monday, as the wind picked up …

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