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MM 0: Green Parrot Bar, 601 Whitehead St., Key West, 305-294-6133 or GreenParrot.com

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The popular hangout with live music that Ernest Hemingway once frequented is doing fine, said John Vagnoni, who operates the long-running bar with partner Pat Croce.

National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration satellite images taken after the storm seemed to confirm this, showing no structural damage to the bar’s roof or nearby trees.

The bar, Vagnoni said, is running on generator power, and sustained no flooding or structural damage. “We’re staying closed for business because there’s no clean water,” says Vagnoni, who evacuated to Sarasota to ride out Hurricane Irma and spent the night in a shelter. “There’s plenty of time to party later, when everyone is safe.”

Vagnoni said a longtime Green Parrot employee, Buco Pantellis, managed to rig a low-voltage landline inside the bar, which Conch residents have been using to let friends and family know they survived.

He said Pantellis’ improvised landline has, so far, drawn “lines of people around the block, 50-deep.” “[Buco] is a real MacGyver for stuff like this. We basically turned the bar into a relay station,” Vagnoni said. “It’s been a full-time job for somebody to man that phone.”

Vagnoni expects the bar will reopen “in a week or so,” after Key West’s water is “safe enough to make ice.”