Ivan set to hit Gulf Coast Thursday morning
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NEW ORLEANS - People along the US Gulf Coast are waiting to see if Hurricane Ivan will strike with the intensity predicted, when it finally makes landfall on Thursday morning.
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MOBILE, Ala.  - Hurricane Ivan slammed into the  U.S. Gulf Coast early on Thursday with devastating winds and  pounding waves that ripped homes apart, flooded deep inland and  spawned tornadoes that killed at least eight people.
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NEW ORLEANS - More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out 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 Tuesday amid dire warnings that Ivan could overwhelm New Orleans with up to 20 feet of filthy, chemical-polluted water...
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Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf Coast with 130 mph winds Thursday and unleashed most of its fury on the Florida Panhandle, collapsing a bridge and sending six tornadoes barreling
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NEW ORLEANS - Stragglers streamed toward higher ground Wednesday on highways turned into one-way evacuation routes as Hurricane Ivan roared toward the Gulf Coast with 135 mph wind, pounding beaches with 12-foot waves and starting to deliver what could be torrential rain.    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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Weather forecasters say Hurricane Ivan has entered the Gulf of Mexico after brushing the western tip of Cuba Monday. Satellite images show Ivan is on a path that will take it toward the southern Gulf coast
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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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World oil prices rose on Thursday as  Hurricane Ivan reached the U.S. Gulf Coast, shutting more than  1 million barrels daily of output in the Gulf of Mexico and 13  percent of U.S. refining capacity.
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PENSACOLA, Fla.  - Hurricane Ivan slammed into the  U.S. Gulf coast on Thursday with furious winds and towering  waves that ripped houses off their foundations, sliced a bridge  in half and cut power to millions.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. | Hurricane Ivan blistered the Gulf Coast early Thursday, spawning killer tornadoes, 2Â½-story waves and torrential rain that killed at least 23 people and demolished dozens of waterfront homes.
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The latest path of projected movement from the National Hurricane Center continues to put Hurricane Ivan&#39;s landfall in the US near Mobile Bay on Thursday morning, according to Local 6 News.
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Hurricane Ivan is now Tropical Storm Ivan, but is still pounding the South as it moves inland. The powerful storm made landfall at 3 am Thursday, battering the Gulf Coast with 130 mile per hour winds and heavy rain.
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PERDIDO KEY, Fla. -- Homes and businesses on the Gulf Coast are sure to take a pounding from high winds, heavy rain and a strong storm surge as Hurricane Ivan moves ashore.
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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.    Along some 300 miles of threatened coastline from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, the churning surf, ominous clouds, swaying traffic lights and escalating winds were all the reminders some people needed to take cover from a storm that made a slight turn north on a path that could bring it ashore early Thursday at the Alabama-Mississippi line, near Mobile, Ala...
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Hurricane Ivan spared the critical Gulf Coast refining belt, but oil prices rose anyway Thursday on fears a new storm brewing in the Caribbean will delay tankers carrying imported crude to US ports.
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The Gulf Coast had a Category 4 hurricane on its doorstep Thursday morning. There were several doors it could have knocked down to make landfall in the continental United States.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. - Hurricane Ivan drilled the Gulf Coast on Thursday with 130-mph winds that inflicted far less damage than feared everywhere except Florida's Panhandle, where residents were left with surge-ravaged beachfronts, flooded streets and homes ripped apart by deadly tornadoes...