Stronger Ivan Eyes Cuba After Slamming Caymans
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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands  - Hurricane Ivan, one  of the fiercest Atlantic storms recorded, grew even more  powerful and headed toward Cuba Monday after pummeling the  Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Grenada on a track that eventually  will bring it to the U.S. coast.
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Hurricane Ivan hurtled toward Jamaica Thursday after devastating the Caribbean island of Grenada, where up to 24 people died, and killing nine others in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Tobago.
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Hurricane Ivan battered the Cayman Islands with ferocious 150-mph winds Sunday, flooding homes, ripping off roofs and toppling trees three stories tall as its eye passed just offshore.
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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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Hurricane Ivan will pass near or over the western tip of Cuba today. The powerful Category Five storm, which has already claimed 65 lives, will bring devastating winds and a potential storm surge of 20 feet (6 meters) or more.
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PINAR DEL RIO - Hurricane Ivan churned north into the Gulf of Mexico yesterday on track for the United States, after ripping off roofs and downing trees and power lines as it brushed past western Cuba.
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PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba - Packing ferocious winds and whipping up monstrous waves, Hurricane Ivan's eye brushed Cuba's sparsely populated western tip as a treacherous Category 5 storm - the most powerful - and barreled north toward the U.S. Gulf Coast...
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PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba - Hurricane Ivan slammed into Cuba's sparsely populated western tip with the worst of its 160-mph eyewall, growing to a storm of catastrophic strength after it smashed giant waves onto Grand Cayman island and readied to strike the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. oil interests...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Hurricane Ivan, one of the  most powerful storms the Caribbean has ever seen, began to lash  the tiny Cayman Islands on Sunday after gutting homes and  washing away roads in Jamaica and killing 44 people throughout  the Caribbean.
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BULL BAY, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan strengthened to a rare Category 5 storm capable of catastrophic damage, leaving Jamaica and aiming for the Cayman Islands with winds reaching 165 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Saturday...
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Hurricane Ivan, leaving a trail of  battered islands and at least 68 dead in a rampage across the  Caribbean, churned closer to Cuba on Monday with 160-mph winds,  on a path that could take it to U.S. shores.
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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.
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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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Hurricane Ivan has gotten stronger once again, and is back to a category five storm. Ivan&#39;s sustained winds are at 160 miles-per-hour, as it leaves behind a deadly trail in the Caribbean and heads toward Cuba.
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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - Hurricane Ivan battered the Cayman Islands with ferocious 150-mph winds Sunday, threatening a direct hit as it flooded homes and ripped up roofs and trees three stories high.    Ivan has killed at least 60 people as it has torn a path of destruction across the Caribbean and was headed next for western Cuba, where it was expected to hit Monday, and could brush the Florida Keys and parts of Florida's Gulf Coast...
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BULL BAY, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan strengthened to a rare Category 5 storm capable of catastrophic damage as it left Jamaica and aimed for the Cayman Islands with winds reaching 165 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Saturday...
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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands  - Hurricane Ivan,  raking a trail of devastation through the Caribbean, bore down  on the tiny Cayman Islands on Sunday after wrecking Jamaica and  Grenada.