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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Tourists and residents were told Thursday to evacuate the Florida Keys because the powerful Hurricane Ivan could hit the island chain by Sunday.
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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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MIAMI - Tourists and residents were told Thursday they will have to leave the Florida Keys to avoid mighty Hurricane Ivan, even as the state still struggled with the misery left by Hurricanes Frances and Charley.    Forecasters said Ivan - which strengthened early Thursday to 160 mph - could reach the island chain as soon as Sunday, making it the third hurricane to hit Florida in a month...
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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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Hundreds of thousands of people along the  U.S. coast from New Orleans to northwest Florida were told to  leave their homes on Tuesday as deadly Hurricane Ivan roared  into the Gulf of Mexico after grazing western Cuba.
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Highways were thick with cars before sunrise Wednesday as US Gulf coast residents fled north to avoid Hurricane Ivan&#39;s approach with 140 mph winds.
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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 a storm that made a slight turn north on a path that could bring it ashore early Thursday at the Alabama-Mississippi line, near Mobile, Ala...
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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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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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The government of Jamaica has ordered half a million people to leave coastal areas ahead of the expected arrival of Hurricane Ivan.
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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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NEW ORLEANS - More than a million people in southern Louisiana have been told to get out of the way of Hurricane Ivan. An area of the Gulf Coast stretching from New Orleans to Florida is preparing for the arrival of Ivan.
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The remains of deadly Hurricane Ivan  moved toward Louisiana and Texas on Thursday with heavy rains,  but winds far below those of the ferocious monster that killed  more than 100 people earlier this month.
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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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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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The Florida Keys are being evacuated and the state is preparing for the possibility of a third hurricane in a month as Hurricane Ivan continues churning Thursday in the Caribbean, leaving a path of destruction unmatched there in at least a decade.