Tropical Storm Katrina hits the Coral Ridge Yacht Club


The eye of Katrina made landfall about 6:30 p.m. Thursday near the county line between Broward and Miami-Dade, moving southwest across Miami-Dade and dumping up to 11½ inches of rain overnight.

V/C Sammarco, riding out the storm at his high-rise Adventura condo reported that the eye passed right over him and he could see the eyewall.

"Awesome," he reported.

The National Hurricane Center measured gusts up to 91 mph at the southeast eyewall, while early reports had gusts reaching 92 mph in Fort Lauderdale, 68 in Miami, 61 mph in Davie and 63 mph in Miami Beach.

Electricity was still knocked out Friday to 648,300 homes in Miami-Dade County, 468,900 in Broward and 17,700 in Palm Beach.  As of Friday afternoon CRYC was still without power.

Immediate Past Commodore, Bobby Rawls aboard his boat at the Club snapped some pictures of the storm impact on the Club.  The largest damage came as the verandah's awning was lifted off, pipes and all, and unceremoniously deposited in the south parking lot.  All the ceiling fans at the Point Bar and Grille whirled themselves to smithereens and one of the TV sets came loose.  Some boats suffered damage to railings and canvas.