We'd accepted the heavy seven-inch key to our fortress late that afternoon from owner Matteo Giovanardi.
It's a three-inch key fob that you're supposed to carry (in your pocket or purse) or wear (it comes with a clip) all day.
Similar to the Miami area, Katrina dropped heavy rainfall in the Florida Keys, reaching 10.05 inches in Key West.
Rainfall totals include 24.5 inches in Cedar Key in 3 days and 38.70 inches in Yankeetown, Florida, in 24 hours, which easily became the largest 24 hour rainfall total on record for the United States.
Just look for the huge wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano (at least 18 inches in diameter), the key player in a production that begins with a splash of Cognac into the routed center of the cheese, which is then torched.
He takes visitors into the main prison, through a barrage of brilliantly shiny brass bars and electric gates, past huge padlocks and doors that open with inch-thick keys, and finally gets to a low red brick hut that contains eight cells - most of them filled with Civil Defence biscuit boxes - a shower, and chair suite.
It passed just southeast of the Florida coastline, prompting the closure of two state parks and dropping 4.19 inches of rainfall in Conch Key.
The main difficulty is that Turkey has not moved one inch in its key demands (Turkey's guarantee of a settlement, including the right of military intervention, and legalization of mainland Turkish settlers, among others).
So far, Egypt's military, which is financed, armed and sustained by Washington, has thrown former dictator Mubarak to the wolves to appease popular anger, but it has barely given an inch on other key issues.
I spent many happy evenings making fluorescent bulbs glow from a distance and running its one-inch arc to a key held firmly in my fingers.
Lay the keys out from lowest to highest, with about 0.25 inches (6 mm) in between each key.
