Hurricane Ivan pounds coastline
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Attacking under cover of darkness and swiftly verifying its reputation as a killer storm, Hurricane Ivan crashed overnight into a well-developed
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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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Hurricane Ivan slammed into the US Gulf Coast, launching tornadoes, washing out major bridges and leaving a path of death and destruction from the Florida panhandle to lower Alabama.
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Hurricane Ivan drilled the Gulf Coast on Thursday with 130-mph winds that inflicted far less damage than feared everywhere except Florida's Panhandle, where residents were left with surge-ravaged beachfronts, flooded streets and homes ripped apart by deadly tornadoes. The storm was blamed for at least 20 U.S. deaths, most of them in Florida.
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Forecasters said Ivan could hit land anywhere from the western Florida Panhandle to the southeastern Louisiana coast as a major hurricane early Thursday.
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Hurricane Ivan, the fifth Atlantic hurricane this year, swept through Grenada with winds up to 135 miles (215 kilometers) per hour and strengthened as it headed into the southeastern Caribbean Sea.
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PENSACOLA, Fla.  - Hurricane Ivan slammed the U.S.  Gulf coast on Thursday with furious winds and flooding, ripping  roofs off homes and hotels, washing out bridges, downing power  lines and spawning tornadoes that killed eight people.
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Hurricane Ivan&#39;s sustained winds strengthened to 160 miles (257 kilometers) per hour as it battered the Netherlands Antilles, off the coast of Venezuela, after devastating the island of Grenada.
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GULF SHORES, Ala. -- A weakened but still powerful Hurricane Ivan made landfall in Alabama early Thursday morning, coming on shore somewhere between Gulf Shores and Palmetto Beach, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Ivan strengthened to a Category 5  hurricane, sweeping toward Jamaica on Thursday after killing at  least 20 people in the tiny spice island of Grenada.  Ivan, packing sustained winds of 160 mph, was heading  north-northwest from the south Caribbean and "could still  intensify a little more this morning," the U.S. National  Hurricane Center said.
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ST. GEORGE&#39;S, Grenada Sept. 7, 2004 - Packing ferocious winds, Hurricane Ivan made a direct hit on Grenada Tuesday, blasting apart scores of homes and hurling hundreds of the island&#39;s landmark red zinc roofs through the air.
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MIAMI : Hurricane Ivan barreled into the Gulf of Mexico toward the US coast after slamming western Cuba on a devastating rampage that killed more than 70 people across the Caribbean.
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Tornadoes spawned by Hurricane Ivan claimed at least two lives and waves lashed onto shore as the US Gulf Coast today felt the first impact of the storm whose full fury was expected during the night.
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PERDIDO KEY, Fla. -- Homes and businesses on the Gulf Coast are sure to take a pounding from high winds, heavy rain and a strong storm surge as Hurricane Ivan moves ashore.
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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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Hurricane Ivan grew into the deadliest of storms today, packing winds of 160mph as it headed straight for Jamaica and left a devastated Grenada and 20 dead.
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Whipping winds and walloping waves lashed western Cuba and the communist country&#39;s tobacco-growing region Monday, as Hurricane Ivan strengthened to a Category 5 storm -- the most powerful -- and barreled along on a new course toward the US Gulf Coast.