From Key Largo to Key West, there was barely any evidence that Tropical Storm Isaac had barreled past the area on Sunday.
Robby Whitehurst from the local restaurant Caribbean Club said there was no panic.
"Everybody was safe. We didn't have any mishaps. We didn't have any sunken boats, sunken cars, sunken trucks, everything worked out real well," he said.
Key Largo resident Michele Kosiek said she put up her shutters just in case.
"You never know. We shuttered everything down that we needed to and just waited to see what would happen," she said.
But restaurant owner Kevin Levan stayed open on Sunday.
"It was more of, I don't know how you would say it, like, an excitement because you didn't know what to come of it. What would actually happen," he said.
Meanwhile, tourist Evelyn Fleury from Pennsylvania said she and her sister put up shutters too.
But in Marathon, Mike Savinelli opened his restaurant called Hurricane Bar and Grill at 6 p.m.
"Right after I saw the advisory, I knew most of the storm had gone past us," he said. "No, I don't think it was a nuisance. You have to be ready and prepared for anything."
Residents in Marathon prepared for Isaac as they would any other big storm, and dozens of shops were shuttered on the city’s Overseas Highway. But in the end what they got was just a wet and very windy weekend.
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“There’s no such thing as a small storm, big storm. Every storm poses some sort of a danger,” Monroe County Emergency Management Director Irene Toner said. “So to think, ‘Oh, it’s only Cat 1,’ or ‘It’s only a tropical storm’ is really not the way to look at it, because Mother Nature is unpredictable – as the storm turned out to be unpredictable.”
In Big Pine Key, a Norfolk Island pine fell on an unoccupied home's staircase.
"Well it was a pretty good thump ... Heard ka-thump ... And there it was," said Joe Francis.
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Down in Key West, Bryan Paul, who works at Captain Tony's, said he thought the media coverage of Isaac was overblown.
"Hopefully the next weekend will be awesome. Everybody should come back," he said at the historic bar. "It’s just kind of windy, a little wet. It’s no big deal."
With little in the way of damage, save some routine flooding in usual locations, there should not be much in the way of a cleanup.
