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After Heavy Damage, Florida Keys Residents Anxiously Wait To Return Home

Some residents of Key Largo are now being allowed back in but the Florida Keys are still largely without power, water, medical service and cell service.
Trailer homes in the Florida Keys overturned during Hurricane Irma are seen Monday. / Pool / Getty Images

Some residents of Key Largo are being allowed back in Tuesday morning but the Florida Keys are still largely without power, water, medical service and cell service. Most Keys residents are anxiously waiting to hear when they can return home and others who stayed despite mandatory evacuations remain stranded there. More than 80 percent of customers on the Keys are currently are without power.

The Keys received some of the worst of Hurricane Irma's wind and rain as the

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