Slow-Moving Frances Begins to Pound Florida
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COCOA, Fla.  - Hurricane Frances lashed eastern  Florida with strong winds and heavy rain on Saturday, cutting  power to nearly half a million homes and businesses and ripping  yachts from their moorings after the enormous storm pounded the  Bahamas.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Potent but slow-moving Hurricane Frances snapped power lines and whipped the Atlantic coast with winds over 90 mph Saturday, knocking out electricity for about two million people and forcing Floridians to endure another day of waiting and worrying...
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Hurricane Frances weakened Sunday morning as it pushed inland in Florida, but the huge system, which has knocked out power to more than 1.6 million homes and businesses, was still &quot;relentlessly pounding&quot; the area, the
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STUART, Fla. - Hurricane Frances pounded Florida relentlessly with high wind and heavy rain Sunday after it smashed across the state's east coast, knocking out power to 4 million people and forcing residents to withstand a prolonged lashing that shredded roofs and uprooted trees...
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MIAMI - A menacing Hurricane Frances, packing 140 mph wind, crept closer Wednesday to the southeastern United States, and forecasters said Florida - still cleaning up after Charley - was at risk for another hurricane strike as soon as Friday.    As Frances closed on the Bahamas, it was expected to fluctuate in intensity and could become a Category 5 storm with winds of 156 mph or higher, said Jamie Rhome, a meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center in Miami...
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Hurricane Frances gained strength and became a major hurricane with 115 mph (185 kph) winds in the Atlantic on Friday as it took a path that should carry it north of the vulnerable northeastern Caribbean islands early next week.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Noah Adams speaks with NPR&#39;s Eric Weiner, reporting from Miami, about Hurricane Frances. The storm, now downgraded to Category 3 strength but still deadly, is headed directly for Florida&#39;s lower East coast.
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Hurricane Frances weakened as it roared  through the Bahamas on Friday and began its initial assault on  the crowded southeast Florida coast, where hundreds of  thousands of people fled their homes and much of the state shut  down.
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Hurricane Frances lumbered all the way across the Florida peninsula yesterday, dumping more rain over a much larger area than last month&#39;s Hurricane
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Hurricane Frances engulfed the Bahamas on Friday, leaving at least one person dead before moving, ever more slowly, toward an anxious Florida.
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Hurricane Frances continued to weaken and slow down early Friday, but Florida officials took no chances, issuing mandatory evacuations for parts of at least a dozen eastern counties.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla.  - Hurricane Frances' wind and water hit sections of southern Florida with fire-hose force Sunday, submerging entire roadways and tearing off rooftops even as the storm weakened and crawled inland with heavy rains in its wake. Four million people remained without power.
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Torrential rain and devastating winds plunged much of Florida into misery yesterday as Hurricane Frances inched its way across the peninsula.
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Hurricane Frances lashed eastern Florida with strong winds and heavy rain on Saturday, cutting power to nearly half a million homes and businesses and ripping yachts from their moorings after the enormous storm pounded the Bahamas.
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Hurricane Frances weakened as it moved slowly across Florida, causing massive power outages and flooding across the state. Frances is expected to move out into the Gulf of Mexico and then cross back into northern
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Hurricane Frances headed out over the Gulf of Mexico bound for the Florida Panhandle early today after lashing a wide swath of the state with punishing winds and drenching rain.
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Hurricane Frances, weaker but still  massive, inched toward Florida on Saturday as it delivered a  long battering to the Bahamas.