by Linda Grist Cunningham | Oct 4, 2022
Each year in the 1950s and ’60s, my grandparents left western Pennsylvania for the winter, pulling a trailer they then parked in one or another tiny crossroads towns that were then west coast Florida. They skipped hurricane season and left for home as summer and... 
by Linda Grist Cunningham | Sep 28, 2022
Ranger Ed and I should make a pact that we won’t tell anyone about our visit overnight Tuesday with soon-to-become Hurricane Ian. Our sturdy little mid-1950s concrete block bungalow is so protected by our neighbors’ properties, which are taller than ours,... 
by Linda Grist Cunningham | Sep 8, 2022
Once a month I drive to Marathon and back for a board meeting. I’ve done that since before Hurricane Irma clobbered Key West and the Florida Keys on Sept. 10, 2017. For five years that 100 mile round trip has been my gauge for our recovery from Irma’s... 
by Linda Grist Cunningham | Sep 2, 2019
Ominously odd air wraps around Key West this morning. Friend John Teets says “it almost feels viscous.” Apt word… Even if one didn’t know there were a hurricane way off in the distance, one still recognizes the dissonance. It did not get better... 
by Linda Grist Cunningham | Aug 29, 2019
Did you hear that collective sigh of almost-relief across Key West this morning? That’s 25,000 or so of us diving into the overnight and 5 a.m., updates from the hurricane center. Looks like, maybe, almost, sorta that Hurricane Dorian’s outer cone will... 
by Linda Grist Cunningham | Aug 28, 2019
Dear off-island friends and family, We’re OK. Really. We are. Just because the weather folks are going nuts speculating that Florida is square in the cone of soon-to-be Hurricane Dorian does not mean Key West and the Florida Keys are anywhere near that dude. I...