Jamaica Braces for Hurricane Ivan
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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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BULL BAY, Jamaica Sept. 12, 2004 - Hurricane Ivan lost some strength as it bore down on the Cayman Islands and Cuba Sunday but was still capable of causing tremendous damage with winds near 155 mph.
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Caribbean islanders are braced for Hurricane Ivan, scrambling to put up storm shutters and buy water just days after Hurricane Frances tore across the region.
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The Caribbean nation of Jamaica became the second major victim of Hurricane Ivan yesterday as waves the height of two-storey houses and 155mph winds smashed into the island.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Hurricane Ivan, one of the  most powerful storms to batter the Caribbean, gutted homes,  washed away roads and killed at least 16 people in Jamaica on  Saturday, but appeared to have spared the island the utter  devastation wrought on Grenada.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Drenching rains and high  winds lashed 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 to hit Florida in a month.
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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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Hurricane Ivan battered Jamaica today but the island is expected to escape the worst of the storms. Hundreds of British tourists and residents in the tropical paradise
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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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The deadliest hurricane to hit the Caribbean in a decade is on course to slam into Jamaica where around 800 Britons are being evacuated.
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An estimated 14 million people across the Caribbean, including Jamaica (population of 2.7 million), Cayman Islands (43,000), and Cuba (11 million), are bracing for the impact of Hurricane Ivan as it tracks towards the Florida peninsula, the Census Bureau
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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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MIAMI -- Forecasters say Hurricane Ivan is still on track to hit Jamaica Friday as a dangerous Category 4 storm. At 8 pm EDT, the center of Ivan was 325 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, moving west-northwest at 13 mph.
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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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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Powerful Hurricane Ivan  roared into Jamaica with huge waves, drenching rains and deadly  winds on Friday and sporadic shooting erupted in the  near-deserted streets of the capital as looters went on the  prowl.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan lashed Jamaica with monstrous waves, driving rain and winds nearing 155 mph Saturday, killing at least five people as it washed away homes and tore roofs off houses and trees from the ground but unexpectedly spared the island from a direct hit.    In the storm's wake, authorities in hard-hit Grenada found another eight bodies, raising the toll on the island to 34 dead and the toll across the Caribbean to 50...
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Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 13 September 2004: - - Hurricane Ivan, one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the Caribbean, killed at least 16 people in Jamaica, where it wrecked houses and washed away roads on Saturday, but appears to have spared