For a new Key West resident, Irma was her welcome-to-town
KEY LARGO, Fla. — Prudence Duchene will never forget the day she moved to Key West.
It was Aug. 30 — the day a storm brewing in the Atlantic got named Irma.
Duchene, 22, was actually waiting to board her Florida-bound flight from Albany International Airport when she saw the news that the newly named tropical storm was headed toward the Keys. She got on the plane, not only moving to Florida as a powerful hurricane loomed but staying in Key West to ride out the storm.
She survived, shaken but fine. And, as she said, “with a fantastic story to tell.”