Friday, August 26th, 2005 — Hurricane Katrina flooded streets, darkened homes, and blew over trees with its wind gusts that reached 92 mph. The storm plowed through South Florida Thursday evening, and emerged over the Gulf of Mexico on early Friday. Four people were killed when the storm reached shore, and a family of five was missing at sea. Katrina had weakened into a tropical storm over land, but strengthened over the warm waters of the gulf and became a hurricane again early Friday with top sustained winds of 75 mph.