Threat of Hurricane Ivan Prompts Evacuation of Florida Keys
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The Florida Keys are much quieter - and emptier - Saturday now that thousands of residents have fled because of the threat of Hurricane Ivan.
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Hurricane Ivan, responsible for at least 60 deaths in the Caribbean, was expected to move westward later today, lessening the threat to Cuba and prompting a warning for Mexico&#39;s Yucatan Peninsula.
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Once primarily a Florida concern, massive Hurricane Ivan now looms as an ominous danger to four states, carrying the threat of devastating wind and water damage from New Orleans to the Florida Panhandle.
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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 disaster-stricken residents struggled to pick up the pieces from Hurricanes Frances and Charley.
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PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba - Hurricane Ivan whipped western Cuba with 257-kilometre-an-hour winds, ripping the roofs of tobacco barns and houses and drenching fields before moving into the Gulf of Mexico today, threatening offshore oil rigs and setting off an
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Visitors were ordered to leave the Florida Keys on Sunday because of the possibility that Hurricane Ernesto would threaten the island chain, emergency officials said.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. - Rather than roll the dice on where 160-mph Hurricane Ivan might strike, Gulf Coast residents from Florida's Panhandle all the way to the bayous of Louisiana spent Monday boarding up their houses, tying up their boats and making plans to evacuate...
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KEY WEST, Fla. - Before Florida could catch a breath from a furious hurricane double-whammy, residents of the Keys were sent scurrying under new evacuation orders Friday as yet another powerful storm was taking aim at the state...
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Hurricane Ivan roared into the Gulf of  Mexico on Tuesday, spurring evacuations along the U.S. coast  and shutting down some oil production after ripping off roofs  and downing trees and power lines when it grazed western Cuba.
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Hurricane Ivan, packing maximum sustained winds near 160 mph (260 km/h), was moving away from western Cuba early Tuesday, leaving toppled power lines, uprooted trees and extensive flooding in its wake.
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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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Hundreds of thousands of people along the US coast from New Orleans to northwest Florida were told to leave their homes on Tuesday as Hurricane Ivan roared into the Gulf of Mexico after grazing western Cuba.
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Officials in Jamaica planned to evacuate as many as 500,000 people from low-lying areas as powerful Hurricane Ivan, a Category 4 storm, headed toward the island nation.
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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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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 140 mph wind.    Nearly 200 miles wide, 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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Now an intense Category Four Hurricane, Ivan is churning toward the Gulf of Mexico. Orange Beach, Alabama is just one of many cities along the Gulf Coast, from Florida to Louisiana, issuing mandatory evacuations because of Ivan.
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KEY WEST, Fla. - The only whooshing sound Hurricane Ivan stirred in the Keys and populous South Florida on Sunday was a sigh of relief from residents no longer fearful the 160-mph storm would make a direct hit...