Evacuees Flee New Orleans Ahead of Ivan
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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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Faced with a nightmare scenario of floodwaters that could drown this below-sea-level city, thousands of evacuees jammed highways Tuesday in an agonizingly slow escape from 140-mph Hurricane Ivan as it bore down on four Gulf Coast states.
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NEW ORLEANS - With 135-mph Hurricane Ivan closing in with frightening intensity, this flood-prone city scrambled Wednesday to get people out of harm's way, putting the frail and elderly in the cavernous Louisiana Superdome and urging others to move to higher floors in tall buildings.    Along some 300 miles of threatened coastline from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, the churning surf, ominous clouds, swaying traffic lights and escalating winds were all the reminders some people needed to take cover from the storm...
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NEW ORLEANS - Stragglers streamed toward higher ground Wednesday on highways turned into one-way evacuation routes as Hurricane Ivan roared toward the Gulf Coast with 135 mph wind, pounding beaches with 12-foot waves and starting to deliver what could be torrential rain.    Ivan could cause significant damage no matter where it strikes, as hurricane-force wind extended up to 105 miles out from the center...
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Residents and tourists in cars, trucks and campers clogged highways Thursday in the biggest evacuation ever ordered in Florida, fleeing inland as mighty Hurricane Frances threatened the state with its second battering in three weeks.
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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
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Hurricane Ivan, which came ashore just east of Mobile, Ala. early Thursday morning, clawed America's boggy Gulf Coast underbelly, knocking out power in southeast Louisiana and lower Alabama and scattering nearly 2 million people in search of higher ground from the Florida Panhandle to New Orleans.
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Hurricane Ivan pummeled communities from New Orleans to Panama City, Fla., as it surged toward Mobile, Ala.
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MIAMI: Tens of thousands of people in the US south have started evacuating their homes as Hurricane Ivan continues its relentless march towards Florida.
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MOBILE, Alabama : Residents of the US Gulf Coast braced for the full fury of Hurricane Ivan, which triggered a major exodus from several states after killing 70 people across the Caribbean.
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Hurricane Ivan continued to torment the Caribbean yesterday as it swung past the western edge of Cuba, triggering the evacuation of more than a million coastal residents, who were ordered to move to higher ground.
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Hurricane Ivan veered to the north today on a path toward Alabama's Gulf Coast as inhabitants across a 300-mile-wide danger zone braced for its onslaught, and a new storm gathered strength in the Caribbean.
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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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NEW ORLEANS (Sept. 14, 2004) -- The New Orleans Saints joined the mass exodus of people feeling the Big Easy and moved their base of operations to San Antonio, far from the reach of approaching Hurricane Ivan.
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Tourists and residents throughout the Florida Keys were sent packing Thursday to avoid the wrath of Hurricane Ivan, even as millions of people in disaster-stricken Florida struggled to pick up the pieces from Hurricanes Frances and Charley.
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Authorities urged over a million people from New Orleans to northwest Florida to flee as deadly Hurricane Ivan churned through the Gulf of Mexico on a track that could bring it onto the US coast by Wednesday night.
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As a formidable hurricane lurched closer, tens of thousands of Florida residents fled their coastal homes on Thursday and clogged highways