Hurricane Ivan Triggers US Gulf Evacuations
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Hurricane Ivan roared into the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, spurring evacuations along the US coast and shutting down some oil production after ripping off roofs and downing trees and power lines when it grazed western Cuba.
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NEW ORLEANS - More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out Tuesday as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge this below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.    Residents streamed inland in bumper-to-bumper traffic in an agonizingly slow exodus amid dire warnings that Ivan could overwhelm New Orleans with up to 20 feet of filthy, chemical-polluted water...
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NEW ORLEANS: Thousands streamed toward higher ground yesterday on highways turned into one-way evacuation routes and surf started eroding beaches as Hurricane Ivan roared toward the Gulf Coast with 217kph wind and its outer bands darkened the sky.
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Ivan, the third and most dreaded hurricane to taunt Florida in a month, shifted west on Saturday, giving hope to the battered Gulf Coast
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Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf Coast with 130 mph winds Thursday and unleashed most of its fury on the Florida Panhandle, collapsing a bridge and sending six tornadoes barreling
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World oil prices rose on Thursday as Hurricane Ivan reached the U.S. Gulf Coast, having shut more than 1 million barrels of daily output in the Gulf of Mexico and 13 percent of refining capacity in the United States.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. | Hurricane Ivan blistered the Gulf Coast early Thursday, spawning killer tornadoes, 2Â½-story waves and torrential rain that killed at least 23 people and demolished dozens of waterfront homes.
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An offshore semi-submersible deepwater drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico is missing in the wake of Hurricane Ivan, but its crew was evacuated well before the storm hit, a spokesman for the company that owns it said Thursday.
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HAVANA : Hurricane Ivan made landfall on the western tip of Cuba, tearing off roofs, causing mudslides, and hurtling toward the Gulf of Mexico and the US coast after killing at least 70 in the Caribbean.
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NEW ORLEANS - More than a million people in southern Louisiana have been told to get out of the way of Hurricane Ivan. An area of the Gulf Coast stretching from New Orleans to Florida is preparing for the arrival of Ivan.
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Hundreds of thousands of people along the US coast from New Orleans to northwest Florida were told to leave their homes on Tuesday as Hurricane Ivan roared into the Gulf of Mexico after grazing western Cuba.
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Hurricane Ivan moved to within 300 miles (480 kilometers) of the mouth of the Mississippi River as residents of Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana were ordered to evacuate coastal regions.
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The U.S. Coast Guard shut five ports on  Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico coast states of Alabama,  Florida and Mississippi as Hurricane Ivan churned nearer.
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US crude leapt about $1.50-a-barrel yesterday as petroleum giants evacuated thousands of workers from the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Ivan.
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Thousands of workers were evacuated Monday from oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Ivan bore down on the waters that cover nearly one-quarter of the country&#39;s fuel supply.
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PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - Apprehensive coastal residents from Floridaâs Panhandle to Louisiana prepared to flee from massive Hurricane Ivan, which has entered the Gulf of Mexico and is on a collision course with the Gulf Coast.
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Hurricane Ivan skirted the western tip of Cuba on Monday and arced into the Gulf of Mexico with sustained winds of 160 mph, bearing down toward landfall on the US Gulf Coast later this week.