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 KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - Some residents of the Florida Keys were rethinking their refusal to evacuate for Hurricane Wilma on Monday after the storm isolated them, submerged streets under water up to 5 feet deep and turned out their lights.
No travel was possible in or out of Key West. Jay Gewin, assistant to the mayor, said 35 percent of the city was flooded, including the airport, and U.S. 1, the lone highway connecting the islands to each other and the mainland, was flooded near Islamorada.
Wilma made landfall before dawn in southwest Florida as a Category 3 storm, stronger than expected, and knocked out power to the entire Keys island chain.
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