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Florida Keys open to visitors after Hurricane Rafael near miss
Tourism infrastructure is intact the 125-mile-long Florida Keys & Key West-island chain is open for business as normal.
Hurricane Rafael’s far outer bands brushed the Keys with tropical storm-force wind gusts but no significant impacts.
The National Hurricane Center early Thursday cancelled a tropical storm warning for the Florida Keys from the Channel 5 Bridge through Key West.
The Florida Keys Overseas Highway, including all 42 bridges, is fully open.
Key West and Florida Keys Marathon International airports are also open and unaffected.
Throughout the Keys, almost all accommodations, attractions, museums, restaurants and other businesses of interest to visitors remained open as the storm passed.
Charter fishing and dive boats are set to resume operations.
Some Florida state parks that closed in the Middle and Lower Keys are reopening by Friday morning.
With Wednesday’s first race canceled because of the weather, organizers at the Race World Offshore Key West World Championship plan to stage races today, Friday Nov. 8, and Sunday.
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