Bahamians head to hurricane shelters
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Hundreds of people fled their homes and took refuge in shelters set up in schools and churches as Hurricane Jeanne bore down on the Bahamas with 100-mph (160-kph) winds and torrential rains, threatening more destruction to an
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George Town, Cayman Islands - People stood on rooftops of flooded homes on Monday in the Cayman Islands, pummelled by Hurricane Ivan before the massive storm strengthened to an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm and headed for Cuba.
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Hurricane Ivan, with winds of 155 miles per hour, forced evacuations in Jamaica as it moved on a track toward Cuba and Florida, where residents braced for the third powerful storm to hit the state in a month.
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Bahamians emerged Sunday from 48 hours of roaring winds and severe flooding to witness the destruction left by Hurricane Frances: wrecked homes and collapsed roofs, yards littered with mangled trees.
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Stores and schools closed, radio stations broadcast warnings and Barbadians readied their homes as Hurricane Ivan charged across the Atlantic on Monday toward Barbados and the Caribbean's eastern islands.
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Residents stocked up to prepare for a storm that has already swamped communities in the Caribbean and reportedly killed dozens.
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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 people in disaster-stricken Florida struggled to pick up the pieces from Hurricanes Frances and Charley.
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Bahamians patched roofs shredded by Hurricane Frances as they prepared to face Hurricane Jeanne, which made an elaborate loop in the Atlantic and headed Thursday toward the island chain it threatened just last week.
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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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More than half a million Jamaicans fled their homes today as Hurricane Ivan bore down on the island with 150 mph winds. It left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean and the death toll of 23 was expected to rise.
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Tropical Storm Noel headed toward the Bahamas on Tuesday after causing flooding and mudslides that killed at least 20 people in the Dominican Republic and left another 20 missing
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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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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Hurricane Jeanne got stronger, bigger and faster as it battered the Bahamas and bore down on Florida Saturday, forcing hundreds of thousands more residents to hurriedly shutter their homes ahead of its anticipated devastating punch...
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Caribbean islanders are bracing for Hurricane Ivan -- only a few days since Hurricane Frances roared through the region. Ivan is heading for the Windward Islands packing sustained winds of 110 miles-an-hour.
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Tourists evacuated two small islands off the coast of Puerto Rico on Wednesday as Tropical Storm Chris gained strength in the eastern Caribbean and was expected to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.
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Thousands of people fled Central America's Caribbean coast on Monday to escape the powerful winds and torrential rains of Hurricane Felix, but many others were left to ride out the approaching storm.
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THEY had been urged to pray for a last-minute miracle as Hurricane Ivan, one of the most ferocious storms in Caribbean history, tore towards their vulnerable island.