Ivan Bears Down on Jamaica with 150 Mph Winds Strengthening
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More than half a million Jamaicans fled their homes today as Hurricane Ivan bore down on the island with 150 mph winds. It left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean and the death toll of 23 was expected to rise.
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Waves two-stories high crashed on Jamaica's eastern shore Friday, flooding homes and washing away roads as Hurricane Ivan's ferocious winds and pounding rains began to lash the island and threatened a direct hit on its densely populated capital. The death toll elsewhere in the Caribbean rose to 37.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Jamaica braced for Hurricane  Ivan on Friday after it devastated Grenada and killed up to 27  people in the Caribbean, on a track that could make it the  third hurricane in a month to hit Florida.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Heavy rain and winds began to  lash Jamaica on Friday as Hurricane Ivan roared closer, after  ravaging Grenada and killing 27 people on a track that could  make it the third big storm in a month to hit Florida.
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Hurricane Ivan strengthened to 265 kilometres per hour Friday afternoon, as it left Jamaica and aimed for the Cayman Islands, a rare Category 5 storm capable of catastrophic damage, the US National Hurricane Center in Miami
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GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands - Hurricane Ivan skirted Grand Cayman with winds near 250 km/h today, uprooting trees, bursting the banks of canals and flooding some homes on the island as it churned toward Cuba.
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Hurricane Ivan bore down on western Cuba and the home to that country&#39;s famed cigar industry with ferocious winds and monstrous waves Monday, strengthening to a Category 5 storm after hammering Grand Cayman with wind gusts up to
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Heavy rain and winds have begun to lash Jamaica as Hurricane Ivan roared closer, after ravaging Grenada and killing 27 people on a track that could make it the third big storm in a month to hit Florida.
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Description: Hurricane Ivan, the worst storm to hit the Caribbean in a decade, spared Jamaica the brunt of its force. But the storm is gaining strength as it heads for the Cayman Islands and Cuba.
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Hurricane Ivan, with winds of 155 miles per hour, forced evacuations in Jamaica as it moved on a track toward Cuba and Florida, where residents braced for the third powerful storm to hit the state in a month.
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Hurricane Ivan grew back into a 115 mph Category 3 hurricane early Tuesday as it heads toward the southern Windward Islands.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica Sept. 11, 2004 - Hurricane Ivan lashed Jamaica with giant waves and winds nearing 155 mph early Saturday, but as panicked residents braced for a direct hit, the storm unexpectedly wobbled
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Caribbean on Monday, packing sustained winds of 125 mph and threatening to hit Barbados and other islands, after it strengthened from tropical storm status with unusual speed.    The Category 3 storm - the fourth major hurricane of the season - was still gaining strength, but apparently not as swiftly as some meteorologists had feared...
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urricane Ivan, hovering southeast of Jamaica, raged into a Category 5 storm this morning as its winds whipped up to 160 miles per hour, and skittish officials in storm weary southern Florida began evacuating some people from the Keys.
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Hurricane Ivan roiled waves two storeys high and tore up power lines, trees and roofs as it grew to fearsome strength Friday, but it stalked Jamaica&#39;s coast and is unlikely to make the expected direct hit, meteorologists said.
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Hurricane Ivan, which weakened to a Category 2 storm Monday, is expected to regain its strength today as it plows through the Windward Islands and passes at least 200 miles south of St.
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Jamaicans scrambled for supplies and fortified their homes as a ferocious Hurricane Ivan swept nearer with 150 mph winds on Thursday after killing at least 20 people on the tiny spice island of Grenada.