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For the first time since Hurricane Irma, people who live in the lower islands of the Florida Keys are returning home. For many, that means arriving at a home to no power and no running water. And for some who live in Marathon, Summerland and Big Pine Key — islands hard-hit by Irma — found their homes no longer livable.

When Hurricane Irma made landfall on Cudjoe Key last week, it carried winds of 130 miles per hour. For islands like Marathon Key on the "dirty" — more powerful — side of the storm, the storm surge was even more damaging than the winds.

When Scott Collins and his family returned home to the southern edge of Marathon Key, they found their home — with its million-dollar view just steps away from the turquoise blue southern Atlantic — devastated. He, his wife and two daughters evacuated to Orlando before Irma struck. The aluminum hurricane shutters covering the house's doors and windows facing the ocean had been crushed and peeled away by the powerful storm surge.

"The back wall gave out into the Florida room here," Collins says. All the family's furniture, household items, even the children's toys are against the walls, mixed with seaweed. "Everything was jammed into the front of the house in just one giant pile." Even a granite countertop from the kitchen was washed into another room by the storm surge. Now, Collins says, it's too heavy for him to move.

Collins works as a fishing guide, specializing in fly fishing for tarpon and bonefish. He took his boat with him when he evacuated but he lost a lot of fishing gear in the storm. "All this fishing stuff, it doesn't bother me," he says. "It's more painful when I see my kids' stuff and personal items that have just been soaked and ruined. That gets to me more."

They don't think they've been looted. Perhaps a spray-painted sign across their front door reading "Looters Will Be Shot" helped. Although, Collins adds, there's not really anything to take, unless you really dig in the muck. Several family members have come down to help, and now that cell service is back, those who aren't here have been "blowing up" their phones with concern. Collin's brother-in-law, Josh, is here, helping mom Gayzel through the painful task of trying to salvage her 9-year-old daughter Addison's room. Amid the destruction in the room, the white letters that spell her name still hang with clean pink ribbon on the wall.

Collins says they plan to spend the foreseeable future sorting through the mixture of debris and belongings by hand — clearing what they can — and hoping to stave off the inevitable corrosion from the items' extended "bath" in salt water.

Most of Collins neighbors also have damage — though only a few have returned to inspect. Laura Welliver, who lives next door, is in a good mood as she walks us through her house. She points out dead, embattled flowers in a vase on the kitchen counter — they were freshly cut when she evacuated last week, and despite their color — they seem to be the most intact thing in the room. On Facebook, she posted photos of the damage with the caption: "This is the new design of our home. Our free flowing kitchen, our open air living room. Fully furnished with seaweed."

"I can make jokes," she says, "because I've already had my good, long cry."

Local and state officials are encouraging residents not to return to the Keys until the infrastructure and services are ready for them. Florida Gov. Rick Scott says at least 10,000 Keys residents are now homeless. But over the weekend, Monroe County gave residents in the lower keys, including Marathon, the OK to come back. As of today, checkpoints to enter the Keys have been shut down, but officials are still asking vacationers and visitors to stay away.

On Marathon Key is without running water, sewer or power in many areas. But businesses, like the Home Depot, Publix supermarket and some restaurants have reopened.

At Brutus Seafood, manager Elise Mucha opened as soon as residents were allowed

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"Sometimes, there's a sort of disconnect between what people think is a policy versus how they respect people individually. Over time, that seems to get better," said Solomon.

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