Thursday, August 25th, 2005 — Over 5 million people that are living in South Florida were warned to prepare themselves for Tropical Storm Katrina, which experts predict could strike the Florida coast as a small hurricane on late Thursday or early Friday morning. The forecast calls for Katrina to make landfall between Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, cut across the peninsula through the Everglades, and then enter the Gulf of Mexico on late Friday or early Saturday.