FLORIDA KEYS — One year to the day after Hurricane Irma struck, life is returning to paradise in the Florida Keys, the iconic island chain at the very bottom of the state.

“We got back on our feet,” Jorge Blanco, 47, a burly commercial lobster fisherman wearing ocean-blue sunglasses and a water-resistant shirt, told the Washington Examiner. “We were able to throw the traps back into the water and are working the traps now.”