HURRICANE KATRINA UPDATE

THE POWER JUST CAME BACK ON.....I LOOKED AT THE FRONT OF OUR HOUSE AND THE STREETS LOOK LIKE CANALS......IN THE BACKYARD, A HUGE OAK TREE IS DOWN AND COVERING THE POOL........THE SITUATION REMAINS DANGEROUS DUE TO DOWNED POWERLINES,FLASH FLOODS AND FALLING TREES......I HAVE HEARD OF AT LEAST 2 DEATHS AND HOPE EVERYONE ELSE STAYS INDOORS UNTIL DAYLIGHT AND THE ALL CLEAR IS GIVEN........CYOUINCOURT007

MIAMI,FLORIDA-Hurricane Katrina hammered Florida's crowded southeast coast with hours of buffeting winds and whipping rains, pitching 2 million people into darkness as power lines came down and killing two.The storm, which was supposed to be a minimal hurricane but nevertheless delivered a fierce punch, weakened slightly over the swampy Everglades on Friday, but in its wake it left flooded neighborhoods and streets carpeted with tree limbs and leaves.
Katrina dumped up to 12 inches of rain after coming ashore just south of Fort Lauderdale and then began a slow and punishing trek southwest across southern Florida, said the U.S.
National Hurricane Center National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Two men were killed in Fort Lauderdale and the city of Plantation to the west by falling trees, said Broward County public information officer Dennis Myers. WFOR television said the first man died when the tree brought a power line down onto his car.
"This is going to be a long night for Miami-Dade and Broward counties," hurricane center director Max Mayfield told CNN.CLICK TITLE FOR THE LINK.................