Jamaicans Flee as Powerful Hurricane Approaches
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Hurricane Ivan, the third powerful storm to boil up out of the Atlantic this year, bore down on Jamaica today after devastating Grenada.
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Hurricane Ivan, the most powerful storm to strike the Caribbean in a decade, closed in on Jamaica Friday bearing sustained winds of 145 mph and threatening widespread destruction in one of the region's most popular tourist destinations before it rumbles into Cuba and storm-battered Florida later this weekend.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Deadly Hurricane Ivan ripped  Jamaica with powerful winds, torrential rains and huge waves on  Saturday, tearing away houses and washing out roads before  heading toward the tiny Cayman Islands and Cuba.  With winds of 155 mph and a death toll already at 29 -- mostly  on the devastated southeastern Caribbean island of Grenada --  Ivan gave Jamaica's 2.7 million people a small, last-minute  reprieve when its center took a sudden westward turn.
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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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Hundreds of people fled their homes and took refuge in shelters set up in schools and churches as Hurricane Jeanne bore down on the Bahamas with 100-mph (160-kph) winds and torrential rains, threatening more destruction to an
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KINGSTON, Jamaica - 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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ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada - Hurricane Ivan bore down on Jamaica on Friday with deadly winds and monstrous waves, after leaving Grenada a wasteland of flattened houses and twisted metal and setting off a frenzy of looting...
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BULL BAY, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan strengthened to a rare Category 5 storm capable of catastrophic damage as it left Jamaica and aimed for the Cayman Islands with winds reaching 165 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Saturday...
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Tens of thousands of people fled low-lying areas on Central America's Caribbean coast on Monday to escape the powerful winds and torrential rains of approaching Hurricane Felix.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan slammed coastal areas of Jamaica with waves two-stories high and torrential rains, but the mighty storm shifted tack and may now spare the island the worst of its fury. The death toll elsewhere in the Caribbean rose to 37...
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BULL BAY, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan's monstrous waves and torrential rains smashed homes, uprooted trees and killed at least five people in Jamaica on Saturday, but a last-minute "wobble" spares the island the full force of the storm's 155-mph fury.    The course change could be good news for hurricane-fatigued Floridians, but people in the Cayman Islands and western Cuba braced for the worst as Ivan headed their way...
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George Town, Cayman Islands - People stood on rooftops of flooded homes on Monday in the Cayman Islands, pummelled by Hurricane Ivan before the massive storm strengthened to an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm and headed for Cuba.
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BULL BAY, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan strengthened to a rare Category 5 storm capable of catastrophic damage, leaving Jamaica and aiming for the Cayman Islands with winds reaching 165 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Saturday...
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ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada - Hurricane Ivan intensified Thursday, heading straight for Jamaica and possibly Florida with 160 mph winds after it killed at least 16 people while pummeling Grenada, Barbados and other islands...
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Caribbean islanders are bracing for Hurricane Ivan -- only a few days since Hurricane Frances roared through the region. Ivan is heading for the Windward Islands packing sustained winds of 110 miles-an-hour.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Michele Norris talks with Knolly Moses, a Jamaican freelance journalist, about Hurricane Ivan. The storm is expected to hit Jamaica in full force late this afternoon, and the capital of Kingston lies directly in Ivan&#39;s path.
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As Hurricane Ivan began to lash Jamaica with wind and rain, officials in Florida stepped up their evacuation efforts.