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Members of the Key West City Commissioner on Wednesday night quarreled over how titillating Fantasy Fest could or should be before approving the creation and boundaries of the “Fantasy Zone”
neil: closing places of business, and two nuclear power plants. trace gallagher has more on that. where were these? we should note that both of these south florida nuclear power plants sit along the coast, both exposed to the strongest winds and highest storm surge. the reactors inside st. lucie is encased in six feet of steel reinforced concrete and they re also well above sea level. if you go back to 1992, the turkey point power plant, about 25 miles south of miami, took a major hit from hurricane andrew, cat 5 storm. suffered more than 90 million in damage. the reactors themselves were not affected. but other systems that were supposed to be hurricane proof did have significant damage including a smokestack that cracked in half. even though it was rated to withstand 235-mile-an-hour winds.