New Orleans empties ahead of Ivan
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MORE than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans have been warned to get out as 225km/h Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast of the US.
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Thursday's developments associated with Hurricane Ivan:
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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.    Ivan made a slight turn north on a path that could bring it ashore early Thursday at the Alabama-Mississippi line, near Mobile, Ala., but forecasters said everyone from New Orleans to the Panhandle should be worried...
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NEW ORLEANS Five offshore oil rigs were set adrift in the Gulf of Mexico and three others were damaged by Hurricane Ivan. The Coast Guard says it received a report from Diamond Offshore that a 335-foot semi
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Hurricane Ivan and its 135-mph winds churned toward the Gulf Coast with frightening intensity Wednesday, spawning monster waves that toppled beach houses and spinning off tornadoes that killed at least two people.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Louisiana storm damage experts say a direct hit by Hurricane Ivan could be very bad for New Orleans. With the city&#39;s saucer-shaped topography that dips as much as 9 feet below sea level, there
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ATLANTA, Nov. 8 -- Hurricane Katrina left more than gutted houses and empty streets along the Gulf Coast.
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Residents of several Caribbean islands are bracing themselves for the arrival of a strong hurricane over the next 24 to 36 hours. Hurricane Ivan is moving at 125mph (200km/h) towards Barbados, St Vincent, St
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NEW ORLEANS - Fleeing to safety was not an option for some people as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge the below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.    Latonya Hill, who waited out the dangerous storm sitting on her stoop Tuesday, said the official pleas for residents to pack up and leave meant little to her...
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PENSACOLA, Fla. -- As shellshocked residents of the Gulf Coast began to clean up, the remnants of Hurricane Ivan pounded a large swath of the Eastern United States on Friday, drenching an area from Georgia to Ohio.
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MIAMI -- Hurricane Ivan killed at least 20 people as it laid waste to the tiny spice island of Grenada, officials said yesterday as the storm swept through the Caribbean heading west.
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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 below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.
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NEW ORLEANS - Stragglers streamed toward higher ground Wednesday on highways turned into one-way evacuation routes and surf started eroding beaches as Hurricane Ivan roared toward the Gulf Coast with 135 mph wind and its outer bands darkened the sky.    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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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 killed at least 20 people  as it laid waste to the tiny spice island of Grenada, officials  said on Wednesday as the storm swept through the Caribbean  heading west.
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Parts of the Caribbean are bracing themselves for the arrival of Hurricane Ivan within the next 36 hours.
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NEW ORLEANS, La. - 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...