Katrina Crossing South Florida Into Gulf

Posted on August 25, 2005

Hurricane Katrina made landfall in South Florida north of Miami earlier today as an 80mph Category 1 hurricane. A blog provided by the Sun Sentinel reports hundreds of thousands of power outages, two deaths from falling trees, an overpass collapse and widespread damage at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport

The storm caused widespread damage at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. High winds "shredded" the pedestrian canopy between Terminals 2 and 3, said Roger Desjarlais, the county administrator.
The winds knocked over a small private plane, overturned an 18-wheeler truck, knocked down power lines on the west side of the airport and flattened fences along the south side. -- David Fleshler at the Broward Emergency Operations Center

Katrina is now making its way WSW across South Florida and is expecting to enter the Gulf of Mexico tomorrow where it will head west before turning back to the North and eventually Northeast. A second landfall is expected to occur anywhere from the Mississipi coast to Florida's west coast according to the National Hurricane Center forecast. Katrina is also expected to be a stronger hurricane when it makes a second landfall.

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