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[“Betty Brothers”] I have a signed copy of one of Betty’s books. As a teen I used to stop and play with her dolphins. Those years were when the Keys were cool and still made up of unique people. |
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[“Montego Bay property”] It’s going to be a real estate office. |
[“Make metal roofs mandatory”] “This proposed ordinance has a great potential for disaster”] The only disaster this would cause is that roofers would be out of business. Anyone who thinks a shingled roof has any advantage over a metal roof doesn’t know much about roofing. My roofer said the only reason local roofers are against metal roofs is because when all the houses have been re-roofed with metal, roofers will be out of business because you never have to replace a metal roof. They last almost for ever. A shingled roof is a bad roof for down here under any circumstance. Friday’s poster’s arguments were based on a few rare exceptions. The only down side to metal roofs is the cost–between $18 G’s and $26 G’s. |
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[“Metal roofs”] Here is a post-Irma shot of my former home from my days living in PPH. I always thought my full metal roof was better protection but I’m not so sure now. That’s the master bedroom missing its roof and I think that’s the roof lying in the lot next door. |
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Does anyone know if Mangrove Mama’s has been sold again? |
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[Debris] We can still dump on the roadway from MM16 to 40, but not on US1. |
[Medical Hack] So, your doctor ordered a test or treatment and your insurance company denied it. That is a typical cost saving method. OK, here is what you do: 1. Call the insurance company and tell them you want to speak with the “HIPAA Compliance Privacy Officer“. By federal law, they have to have one. 2 Then ask them for the names as well as credentials of every person accessing your record to make that decision of denial. By law you have a right to that information 3. They will almost always reverse the decision very shortly rather than admit that the committee is made of low paid high school graduates, looking at “criteria words,” and making the medical decisions to deny your care. Even in the rare case it is made by medical personnel, it is unlikely that it is made by a board certified doctor in that specialty and they do not want you to know this. 4. Any refusal should be reported to the US Office of Civil Rights (OCR.gov) as a HIPAA violation. |
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Metal roofs are the only way to go. Only shingle roof contractors love them. Ask any insurance or mortgage company. |
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Kenny Lowe, the manger at Winn-Dixie, isn’t leaving. He doesn’t know how that rumor got started, but said many have asked. Next time you are in there, thank him for opening W/D the day after Irma with almost no staff. Better yet, contact their corporate office and write nice things. |
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[Debris] The collection of Hurricane Irma debris resumed Wednesday on Monroe County roads in the mile marker 16 to 40 area in the Lower Keys after a short break for Christmas.
No county roads in these areas have received a final collection pass. If you have debris in county rights of way or private roads, it will get picked up. More than 1 million cubic yards of debris has been collected from just this area alone, the area hardest hit by the Category 4 Sept. 10 storm. If you live between mile markers 16 and 40 and have eligible hurricane debris remaining in your yard, place it on the nearest county right of way. This is important to expedite the cleanup and ensure all eligible hurricane debris is picked up. The final collection of hurricane debris on Duck Key, Conch Key and in the city of Layton is also underway. The deadline has passed in these areas to put hurricane debris on county and city rights of way. The Florida Department of Transportation’s debris contractor, MCM, is conducting a final pass along U.S. 1 in the Keys. It’s been illegal for weeks now to dump any hurricane debris in the U.S. 1 right of way or on county roads that have received or in the midst of a final sweep. This includes Key Largo, Tavernier and from Stock Island to mile marker 15 (Baypoint). Also, discarded Christmas trees in the Keys should not be put on hurricane debris piles for pickup. The trees should be put with your regular yard waste for collection. |
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We put out water every day for the deer and they drink about two gallons of it every day. |
Q: What happened to the Irish man who thought about the evils of drinking in the New Year? A: He gave up thinking. |
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[Debris] When the hell is the State going to clean up the rest of Irma’s debris. I know most of the local rednecks have dumped their trash on our roads, but that still needs to be cleaned up! When the rat start eating our kids then something might be done, right? |
![]() Commercial grade, less expensive, guaranteed longer, provided much-reduced interior temperatures, bonded tightly, and survived Hurricane Irma’s 140-mph “dirty-side” winds with no damage whatsoever. |
[Bob Marley Redemption Song] At the time he wrote ‘Redemption Song’, circa 1979, Bob Marley had been diagnosed with the cancer in his toe that later took his life. It is considered one of his greatest works and continues to inspire generations of Marley fans across the world. Audio |
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Reality continues to ruin my life. |
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[Keys Expensive] Those of us who have lived in Keys since birth or moved here when it was affordable should now move away because a bunch of ‘got miners’ developed and ruined our homes? Maybe, just maybe, Irma was karma on the got miners! She sure could not have tore up a more deserving part of the Keys than she did. One day I will be in Boondocks or the tiki bar and actually get to see and hear some twat-waffle say those who cannot afford it here should move. I can guarantee you his orthodontist will be able to afford the Keys life afterwards, and tell Ira Jane / Melanie[?] — whatever this week, hello. |
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If I get a paper cut in my office, can I sue my boss for having sharp paper around? How about suing for conception due to a cheap rubber bursting? Or maybe suing the cruise line for bad weather during my trip? Can I sue because I have never sued anyone before? |
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This Big Pine Key snowman was brought to you by Coconuts Bar & Drive Through Liquor Store, downtown Pine Key. |
[Resolution] In 2018 I will start buying lottery tickets at a luckier store. |
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[Debris] In just a few more days it will be 4 months since hurricane Irma. Still there are piles of trash and garbage everywhere. On Watson between Key Deer Blvd. and Fern Ave. nothing has been touched and the trash continues to get dumped. There hasn’t been one pickup. Not one. The stuff was actually falling into the roadway until someone pushed it back a bit. I haven’t seen even one truck in Eden Pines and only two on Key Deer Blvd where piles of debris still sit. I hope we all clearly remember this inexcusable debacle when it’s time to vote for county commissioners again who have a lot of excuses, do a lot of finger pointing and basically do nothing to remedy this mess. |
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Happy 2018! On the back of my Jethro Tull‘s Aqualung album circa 1971. In the beginning, Man created … |
“Betty Brothers wrote and illustrated many books about the dolphins.” Can you tell me some of the books she wrote their titles? |
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[Over-development] If you get the chance to travel to Hawaii and the South Pacific, don’t bother, it all has been trashed out and tourist-ized and the old world beauty is gone. Save your money and just tour via Google Earth! Beware the same doesn’t happen here, or is it already too late? |
[“BBQ grills thrown out”] Because the New Keys are owned by people who fix nothing. They are the throw-away generation. |
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[Correction] I am old and have senior moments”. I recently posted a message to Glenn Reber regarding the passing of John Brincko. John Brincko was the second husband of Glenn Reber’s sister, not his mother! Sorry. |
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All the twisted news that is being displayed online, on TV and in the papers, that are actually lies should be liable as lying in court and those held responsible. |
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[Cisterns] We are 150 miles out to sea and most every home here has a pointed [Gabled] roof for snow loads. A flat roof would collect rain and help fill utility containers, water the weed, even supply the home with drinking water if filtered correctly. Also, the earth is 7/8 water and we don’t tap that for drinking or cultivation very well. Why? |
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