He managed to stitch together an income in one of the nation's most expensive places and was just getting by when Irma roared into town. Irma destroyed at least 25 percent of homes on the Keys, according to FEMA, and badly damaged systems for delivering water and electricity. Sirens wail constantly from emergency crews racing from one end of the Keys to the next. He bought the Keys' only tropical fruit grove and spent six years lovingly restoring and replanting it. ———Follow Jason Dearen on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/JHDearen———Video links:After Irma: A Keys resident surveys the damagehttps://youtu.be/tHLIeBoI-uI———After Irma: Keys residents contend with the storm's aftermathhttps://youtu.be/lZkkha6BDio

Source: ABC News September 15, 2017 19:18 UTC