Ferocious storm stuns Key West residents.

Publication: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal

Byline: Brian Haas

KEY WEST, Fla. _ The winds blasted the marina. The water pushed 4 feet above the dock.

And Bill Bricking, who vowed to ride out Hurricane Wilma on his houseboat in Garrison Bight Marina on Monday morning, decided he had had enough.

"At 2 o'clock, all hell broke loose," he said. "At 3 o'clock, double hell broke loose.

"At 4 o'clock, more hell than two or three broke loose."

At 5 a.m., Bricking fled his boat during a momentary calm. He...

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