Ivan Heads Into Gulf; Florida, New Orleans Threatened
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Hurricane Ivan, with winds near 140 mph, pushed oil prices higher today as it moved through the Gulf of Mexico on a path that may bring it ashore between Louisiana and Florida by Thursday.
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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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Hurricane Ivan is on the move and so are hundreds of thousands of residents along the Gulf Coast. This mammoth storm is now taking aim at the Southern United States.
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NEW ORLEANS: Thousands streamed toward higher ground yesterday on highways turned into one-way evacuation routes and surf started eroding beaches as Hurricane Ivan roared toward the Gulf Coast with 217kph wind and its outer bands darkened the sky.
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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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Once primarily a Florida concern, massive Hurricane Ivan now looms as an ominous danger to four states, carrying the threat of devastating wind and water damage from New Orleans to the Florida Panhandle.
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MIAMI : Hurricane Ivan barreled into the Gulf of Mexico toward the US coast after slamming western Cuba on a devastating rampage that killed more than 70 people across the Caribbean.
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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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GULF SHORES, Ala. - Hurricane Ivan slammed ashore early Thursday with winds of 130 mph, packing deadly tornadoes and a powerful punch of waves and rain that threatened to swamp communities from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle...
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PINAR DEL RIO - Hurricane Ivan churned north into the Gulf of Mexico yesterday on track for the United States, after ripping off roofs and downing trees and power lines as it brushed past western Cuba.
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Hurricane Ivan veered to the north today on a path toward Alabama's Gulf Coast as inhabitants across a 300-mile-wide danger zone braced for its onslaught, and a new storm gathered strength in the Caribbean.
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Hundreds of thousands of people along the  U.S. coast from New Orleans to northwest Florida were told to  leave their homes on Tuesday as deadly Hurricane Ivan roared  into the Gulf of Mexico after grazing western Cuba.
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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
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Hurricane Ivan moved to within 300 miles (480 kilometers) of the mouth of the Mississippi River as residents of Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana were ordered to evacuate coastal regions.
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Authorities urged millions of people from  New Orleans to northwest Florida to flee as deadly Hurricane  Ivan pushed across the Gulf of Mexico on a track that could  bring it to the U.S. coast on Wednesday night.
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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 skirted the western tip of Cuba on Monday and arced into the Gulf of Mexico with sustained winds of 160 mph, bearing down toward landfall on the US Gulf Coast later this week.