Direct Hit by Ivan Could Sink New Orleans
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The worst-case scenario for New Orleans &#151; a direct strike by a full-strength Hurricane Ivan &#151; could submerge much of this historic city treetop-deep in a stew of sewage, industrial chemicals and fire ants, and the inundation could last for weeks, experts say.
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NEW ORLEANS - Stragglers streamed toward higher ground Wednesday on highways turned into one-way evacuation routes and pounding surf started eroding beaches as Hurricane Ivan roared toward the Gulf Coast with 135 mph wind.    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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The remains of Hurricane Ivan buffeted the Louisiana coast on Thursday evening with heavy rains and gusty winds as it moved in from the Gulf of Mexico, much diminished from the ferocious monster that earlier killed more than 100 people
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NEW ORLEANS, La.  - The Big Easy became The Big  Queasy on Tuesday as the usually laid-back party town worried  about deadly Hurricane Ivan rumbling north through the Gulf of  Mexico toward the U.S. coast.
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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 U.S. coast by Wednesday night.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. - Hurricane Ivan spun off deadly tornadoes, swamped streets in storm-weary Florida and battered and bruised the Alabama coast, but largely spared Mississippi, Louisiana and especially vulnerable New Orleans...
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NEW ORLEANS, La. - Faced with a nightmare scenario of floodwaters that could drown this below-sea-level city, thousands of evacuees jammed highways Tuesday in an agonizingly slow escape from 140-mph Hurricane Ivan as it bore down on four Gulf Coast states...
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Authorities urged millions of 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 U.S. coast by Wednesday night.
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NEW ORLEANS - More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out Tuesday as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge this below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.    Residents streamed inland in bumper-to-bumper traffic in an agonizingly slow exodus amid dire warnings that Ivan could overwhelm New Orleans with up to 20 feet of filthy, chemical-polluted water...
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PENSACOLA, Fla. Sept. 17, 2004 - Hurricane Ivan was the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States since Floyd in 1999, but it could have been worse.
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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 140 mph wind.    Nearly 200 miles wide, 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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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.    Ivan made a slight turn north on a path that could bring it ashore early Thursday at the Alabama-Mississippi line, near Mobile, Ala., but forecasters said everyone from New Orleans to the Panhandle should be worried...
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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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The remains of deadly Hurricane Ivan moved toward Louisiana and Texas on Thursday with heavy rains, but winds far below those of the ferocious monster that killed more than 100 people earlier this month.
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Hurricane Ivan may cost insurers less than first estimated after the third storm to hit the US in six weeks skirted New Orleans. US claims will probably total $2 billion to $7 billion, down from a previous
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It killed 68 people and left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean &#151; thousands of homes torn apart, vast areas flooded and life paralyzed on islands where gargantuan recovery efforts lie ahead. But Hurricane Ivan skirted most big cities, and the devastation could have been far worse.
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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.