Thousands Flee as Hurricane Ivan Roars Toward US
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Authorities urged over a million people from New Orleans to northwest Florida to flee as deadly Hurricane Ivan churned through the Gulf of Mexico on a track that could bring it onto the US coast by Wednesday night.
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MIAMI  - Hundreds of thousands of people were told Wednesday to get ready to evacuate as powerful hurricane Frances crept closer to Florida just weeks after hurricane Charley's rampage.
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Hurricane Ivan and its 135-mph winds churned toward this historic port city with frightening intensity Wednesday as the storm began its assault on the Gulf
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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 the storm...
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Hurricane Ivan is on the move and so are hundreds of thousands of residents along the Gulf Coast. This mammoth storm is now taking aim at the Southern United States.
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New Orleans&#39; mayor urged the Big Easy&#39;s half-million residents to evacuate, and residents of low-lying Gulf Coast communities were ordered to leave Tuesday as Hurricane Ivan moved toward the northern Gulf Coast with 140 mph
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Cubans today evacuated their homes and waited for Hurricane Ivan, which has gained strength, to hit the island with 260kmph (160mph) winds and a storm surge of up to 7.5 metres (25 feet).
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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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Hurricane Ivan temporarily spun into a Category 5 monster with 160 mph winds on Thursday, but even more frightening, it continued churning toward South Florida with the potential for catastrophic destruction.
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Hurricane Ivan roared into the Gulf Coast near Mobile, Alabama, early this morning with peak winds exceeding 125 miles an hour (200 kilometers an hour).
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Hurricane Ivan churned toward Mobile, Ala., with intensity as the storm began its assault on the Gulf Coast today, lashing the region with heavy rain and ferocious wind.
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Hurricane Frances, which may become the costliest storm to hit the US in a dozen years, headed toward Florida, forcing about 2.5 million people to flee their homes.
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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 neared Jamaica Friday night packing sustained winds of 155 mph, all but promising life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.
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Authorities urged millions of people from  New Orleans to northwest Florida to flee as deadly Hurricane  Ivan pushed across the Gulf of Mexico on a track that could  bring it to the U.S. coast on Wednesday night.
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WHEELING, W.Va. - Hundreds of people evacuated their homes Sunday in parts of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania as rivers and small streams were swollen beyond their banks by the torrential rain dumped by remnants of Hurricane Ivan...
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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.