One year ago, South Florida awoke to the destruction wrought by Hurricane Irma. The storm had slammed into the Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm, bringing catastrophic winds and rain. According to the National Hurricane Center, the storm surge and tide produced flooding of 5 to 8 feet in the Lower Keys and winds reached 120-mph in Big Pine Key. The storm left piles of torn down trees, couches, porta-potties, refrigerators, furniture and other debris across the islands. Over the past year, South Florida has worked to rebuild. WLRN's Sundial producers traveled to the Keys to talk to Lynda Wells , Douglas Mader and Brian Vest , three Florida Keys residents with one mission: to help improve the lives of people in their community after the hurricane. You can hear/read their stories below.
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