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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Ken Kaye and Scott Wyman
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Taking a collision course toward south Florida, Tropical Storm Katrina threatened to build into an 80-mph hurricane, unleash torrential rains and trigger severe flooding.
With landfall projected for about 11 a.m. on Friday, the region should begin feeling the storm's outer bands Thursday morning. By Sunday, the system is expected to dump 6 to 12 inches of rain, with up to 20 inches in some areas.
"We're going to get swamped here is what it amounts to," said meteorologist Jim Lushine of the National Weather Service in Miami, which issued a flood watch through Saturday night.
A hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning have been issued from Vero Beach to Florida City, and Broward County emergency managers called for a voluntary evacuation of mobile homes and the barrier islands.
By this morning, Katrina was expected to be about 100 miles southeast of Pompano Beach, the primary target under the projected...
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