6A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25. 2005
HURRICANE WILMA
Storm hits Florida with Category 3 power
BY CURT ANDERSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Hurricane Wilma knifed through Florida with winds up to 125 mph Monday, shattering windows in skyscrappers, peeling away roofs and knocking out power to 6 million people. There is still a month left to go in the busiest Atlantic storm season on record.
At least six deaths were blamed on the hurricane in Florida, bringing the toll from the storm's march through the tropics to 25.
After a slow, week-long journey that saw it pound Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula for two days, Wilma made a mercifully swine-seven-hour dash across lower Florida, from its southwestern corner to heavily populated Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach on the Atlantic coast.
"We have been huddled in the living room trying to stay away from the windows. It got pretty violent there for a while." said 25-year-old Eddie Kenny, who was at his parents' home in Plantation near Fort Lauderdale. "We have trees down all over the place and two fences have been totally demolished, crushed, gone."
The insurance industry estimated insured losses in Florida at anywhere from $2 billion to $9 billion.
Officials said it was the most damaging storm to hit the Fort Lauderdale area since 1950.
After a slow, weeklong journey that saw it pound Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula for two days, Wilma made a mercifully swift seven-hour dash across lower Florida, from its southwestern corner to heavily populated Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach on the Atlantic coast.
The 21st storm of the 2005
season howled ashore around daybreak just south of Marco Island as a Category 5, cutting electricity to the entire Florida Keys. A tidal surge of up to 9 feet swamped parts of Key West in chest-high water, and the only highway to the mainland was flooded.
Darron R. Silva/THE NAPLES DAILY NEWS
By early afternoon, Wilma had swirled out into the open Atlantic, back up to 115-mph Category 3 strength but on a course unlikely to have much effect on the East Coast. Forecasters said it would stay well offshore.
Wilma brought 8 inches of rain to Miami-Dade County, nearly 6 1/2 to Naples and 3 to Fort Lauderdale. The flooding could well have been worse if the storm had lingered over the state instead of racing straight through, National Hurricane Center meteorologist Mark McInerney said.
"There's really no good scenario for a hurricane," he said. "Just a lesser of two evils."
Judy Borgia looks over the damage done by Hurricane Wilma to the mobile home of her nephew, Bubba Dennison, in East Naples, Fla., Monday morning. The hurricane tore apart the porch and a shed at the home in Holiday Manor Trailer Park.
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