Ivan Slams Jamaica, Gains Strength
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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, one of the  most powerful storms to batter the Caribbean, killed at least  16 people in Jamaica, where it wrecked houses and washed away  roads on Saturday, but appeared to have spared the island the  devastation wrought on Grenada.
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Hurricane Ivan claimed 14 lives and caused severe material damage in Jamaica Saturday, according to preliminary reports from Jamaica&#39;s National Catastrophe-DefenseOffice.
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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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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - Hurricane Ivan battered the Cayman Islands with ferocious 150-mph winds Sunday, flooding homes, ripping off roofs and toppling trees three stories tall as its powerful eye thundered past. It then strengthened to Category 5 as it moved Monday on course for Cuba...
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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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Hurricane Ivan, one of the most powerful storms to batter the Caribbean, killed at least 16 people in Jamaica, where it wrecked houses and washed away roads on
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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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Hurricane Ivan, one of the fiercest  Atlantic storms recorded, grew even more powerful and headed  toward Cuba on Monday after pummeling the Cayman Islands,  Jamaica and Grenada, killing at least 65 on a track that could  take it to the U.S. coast.
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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, one of the  most powerful storms to batter the Caribbean, gutted homes,  washed away roads and killed at least 16 people in Jamaica on  Saturday, but appeared to have spared the island the utter  devastation wrought on Grenada.
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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands  - Hurricane Ivan  lashed the tiny Cayman Islands with ferocious winds and driving  rain on Sunday after devastating Jamaica and Grenada in a  deadly trek through the Caribbean.
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More than half a million Jamaicans fled their homes today as Hurricane Ivan bore down on the island with 150 mph winds. It left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean and the death toll of 23 was expected to rise.
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The Caribbean nation of Jamaica became the second major victim of Hurricane Ivan yesterday as waves the height of two-storey houses and 155mph winds smashed into the island.
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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 Cayman Islands and Cuba.
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Hurricane Ivan skirted Jamaica&#39;s southern and western coasts late last night and early today, pounding the island with heavy rains and winds exceeding 150 mph as the most powerful Caribbean
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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.