Ferocious Hurricane Punishes the Gulf Coast
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Hurricane Ivan pummeled communities from New Orleans to Panama City, Fla., as it surged toward Mobile, Ala.
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MOBILE, Ala. - Hurricane Ivan and its 135-mph winds churned toward the Gulf Coast with frightening intensity Wednesday, spawning monster waves that toppled beach houses and spinning off tornadoes that killed at least two people...
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The deadliest storm of the hurricane season tore into Florida last night, battering the storm-weary state with 120-mph winds, blinding rain and massive waves.
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GULF SHORES, Ala. - Hurricane Ivan slammed ashore early Thursday with 130 mph wind, launching tornadoes, whipping up waves and hurling metal signs through the night...
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Tornadoes spawned by Hurricane Ivan claimed at least two lives and waves lashed onto shore as the US Gulf Coast today felt the first impact of the storm whose full fury was expected during the night.
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A strong storm system steamed toward the East Coast Friday after generating tornadoes, lightning and large hail from Canada to the Gulf Coast the day and night before.
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Hurricane Ivan has slammed into the US Gulf coast with furious winds and towering waves that have ripped houses off their foundations, sliced a bridge in half and cut power to millions.
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Hurricane Humberto rumbled onto the upper Texas coast on Thursday with 85 mile per hour (135 kph) winds and heavy rains that threatened widespread flooding.
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PENSACOLA, Fla.  - Hurricane Ivan slammed the U.S.  Gulf coast on Thursday with furious winds and flooding, ripping  roofs off homes and hotels, washing out bridges, downing power  lines and spawning tornadoes that killed eight people.
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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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Shrieking winds and angry sheets of rain thrashed Florida's coast as Hurricane Frances hit land early this morning and was making its way slowly across the state.
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Call it the instant hurricane. Humberto, which grew faster than any storm on record from tropical depression to full-scale hurricane landfall, surprised the Texas-Louisiana coast early Thursday with 85-mph winds and heavy rain that knocked out power to more than 100,000 and left at least one person dead.
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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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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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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. The storm was blamed for at least 20 U.S. deaths, most of them in Florida.
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The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning Friday for a long stretch of the Gulf Coast.
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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...