Jamaica Declares State of Emergency as Ivan Nears
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Drenching rains and high  winds lashed Jamaica on Friday as Hurricane Ivan roared closer,  after ravaging Grenada and killing 27 people on a track that  could make it the third big storm to hit Florida in a month.
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Hurricane Ivan has been pounding Jamaica with high winds and torrents of rain, causing flooding and power outages throughout the Caribbean island nation.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Jamaicans rushed to  supermarkets and schools closed as Hurricane Ivan swept toward  the Caribbean island with 160-mph winds on Thursday after  killing at least 20 people on the tiny spice island of Grenada.
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Hurricane Ivan slammed into eastern Jamaica late Friday with torrential rains and waves two stories high. Ivan&#39;s winds strengthened to 155 mph -- just shy of a Category
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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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ST. GEORGE&#39;S, GRENADA - Jamaica&#39;s Prime Minister urged his country to pray Thursday as the Category 5 hurricane Ivan headed toward the island nation after killing 20 people elsewhere in the Caribbean.
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Description: Hurricane Ivan, the worst storm to hit the Caribbean in a decade, spared Jamaica the brunt of its force. But the storm is gaining strength as it heads for the Cayman Islands and Cuba.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan lashed Jamaica with monstrous waves, driving rain and winds nearing 155 mph Saturday, killing at least five people as it washed away homes and tore roofs off houses and trees from the ground but unexpectedly spared the island from a direct hit.    In the storm's wake, authorities in hard-hit Grenada found another eight bodies, raising the toll on the island to 34 dead and the toll across the Caribbean to 50...
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Waves two-stories high and torrential rains flooded eastern Jamaica and punishing winds knocked down trees and power lines as Hurricane Ivan slammed coastal areas
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KINGSTON, Jamaica Sept. 11, 2004 - Hurricane Ivan lashed Jamaica with giant waves and winds nearing 155 mph early Saturday, but as panicked residents braced for a direct hit, the storm unexpectedly wobbled
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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan lashed Jamaica with giant waves and winds nearing 155 mph early Saturday, but as panicked residents braced for a direct hit, the storm unexpectedly wobbled and lurched west, possibly sparing the island the worst of its fury.    The change in course could be good news for hurricane-weary Florida, since Ivan may now head off into the Gulf of Mexico...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Waves two-stories high crashed on Jamaica's eastern shore Friday, flooding homes and washing away roads as Hurricane Ivan's ferocious winds and pounding rains began to lash the island and threatened a direct hit on its densely populated capital. The death toll elsewhere in the Caribbean rose to 37...
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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.
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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 and prompting the evacuation of half a million people from coastal areas, where roads were already flooded.    In its wake, Ivan left the island of Grenada a wasteland of flattened houses, twisted metal and splintered wood and sparked a frenzy of looting...
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Jamaica was battered by its worst natural disaster in half a century yesterday as Hurricane Ivan inflicted howling winds and floods from torrential rain and gigantic waves on the island.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Heavy rain and winds began to  lash Jamaica on Friday as Hurricane Ivan roared closer, after  ravaging Grenada and killing 27 people on a track that could  make it the third big storm in a month to hit Florida.
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(CBS/AP) The leading edge of Hurricane Ivan was kicking up heavy rain and winds off Jamaica&#39;s eastern tip Friday morning and a large storm surge flooded roads there, a radio station reported.