Powerful Ivan nears Jamaica
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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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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Powerful Hurricane Ivan  roared into Jamaica with huge waves, drenching rains and deadly  winds on Friday and sporadic shooting erupted in the  near-deserted streets of the capital as looters went on the  prowl.
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Hurricane Ivan, one of the fiercest Atlantic storms recorded, has grown even more powerful and is heading toward Cuba after it pummelled the Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Grenada, killing at least 65 people.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Deadly Hurricane Ivan ripped  Jamaica with powerful winds, torrential rains and huge waves on  Saturday, tearing away houses and washing out roads before  heading toward the tiny Cayman Islands and Cuba.  With winds of 155 mph and a death toll already at 29 -- mostly  on the devastated southeastern Caribbean island of Grenada --  Ivan gave Jamaica's 2.7 million people a small, last-minute  reprieve when its center took a sudden westward turn.
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BULL BAY, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan lost some strength as it bore down on the Cayman Islands and Cuba Sunday but was still capable of causing tremendous damage with winds near 155 mph.    Ivan has killed 56 people across the Caribbean so far this week, including 34 in Grenada and 11 in Jamaica...
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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. Ivan has killed 56 people across the Caribbean so far this week, including 34 in Grenada and 11 in Jamaica.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan lashed Jamaica with monstrous waves, driving rain and winds nearing 155 mph Saturday, killing at least two people as it washed away homes and ripped up roofs and utility poles but unexpectedly spared the island from a direct hit.    A 10-year-old girl drowned in Old Harbor, just east of Kingston, and a woman was killed in the capital by a tree that struck here home, said Ronald Jackson of Jamaica's disaster relief agency...
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BULL BAY, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan's monstrous waves and torrential rains smashed homes, uprooted trees and killed at least five people in Jamaica on Saturday, but a last-minute "wobble" spares the island the full force of the storm's 155-mph fury.    The course change could be good news for hurricane-fatigued Floridians, but people in the Cayman Islands and western Cuba braced for the worst as Ivan headed their way...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Jamaica braced for ferocious  Hurricane Ivan on Friday after its 150-mph winds devastated the  island of Grenada.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Half a million Jamaicans were  urged to leave their homes in low-lying areas on Thursday as  ferocious Hurricane Ivan swept nearer with 150-mph winds after  a deadly charge through the Caribbean.
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Hurricane Ivan veered to the north today on a path toward Alabama&#39;s Gulf Coast as inhabitants across a 300-mile-wide danger zone braced for its onslaught, and a new storm gathered strength in the Caribbean.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan's deadly winds and monstrous waves bore down on Jamaica on Friday, threatening a direct hit on its densely populated capital after ravaging Grenada and killing at least 33 people.    The Jamaican government ordered the evacuation of half a million people from coastal areas, where rains on Ivan's outer edges were already flooding roads...
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Ivan strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane Saturday after brushing past Jamaica and battering the island with heavy rain and strong winds.
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MIAMI -- Forecasters say Hurricane Ivan is still on track to hit Jamaica Friday as a dangerous Category 4 storm. At 8 pm EDT, the center of Ivan was 325 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, moving west-northwest at 13 mph.
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Hurricane Ivan is bearing down on the western tip of Cuba with winds near 160 miles per hour. If the Cayman Islands and Jamaica are any indication, damage could be widespread.
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Hurricane Ivan, the third powerful storm to boil up out of the Atlantic this year, bore down on Jamaica today after devastating Grenada.
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urricane Ivan, hovering southeast of Jamaica, raged into a Category 5 storm this morning as its winds whipped up to 160 miles per hour, and skittish officials in storm weary southern Florida began evacuating some people from the Keys.