TRACKING FATE: With Monster Headed Who Knows Where, Coastal Exodus Begins Days Before Rita's Landfall
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By Christine Rappleye, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Sep. 21--Hurricane Rita started this day a year ago as a Category 2 hurricane.
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Big winds this week kicked up quite a sea in our region, where the fishing before the storm was fairly solid. Even with the cold front and all the rain, the ocean temperature has not cooled enough to drive the migrants out, and excellent fishing takes place in October, especially in southern waters.
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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 Felix, a potentially devastating storm, barreled toward Honduras where tens of thousands of people prepared to evacuate on Monday in fear of a repeat of a deadly 1998 hurricane.
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Hurricane Gordon was speeding toward the Azores Islands, while Helene, a powerful Category Three hurricane, could swipe the Bermudas later this week, the US National Hurricane Center said.
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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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Description: With Hurricane Ivan approaching, oil companies evacuate hundreds of oil workers from drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Hurricane Ivan and its 135-mph winds churned toward this historic port city with frightening intensity Wednesday as the storm began its assault on the Gulf
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Highways were thick with cars before sunrise Wednesday as US Gulf coast residents fled north to avoid Hurricane Ivan&#39;s approach with 140 mph winds.
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HOUSTON -- Tropical Storm Ivan Thursday crept toward the Houston area with the threat of making it a very rainy weekend. Forecasters are predicting heavy rain from Galveston to Houston to College Station.
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As a savage hurricane zeroes in on the Gulf Coast, a TIME reporter flies through the center of the storm
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A hurricane warning was issued for the Azores as Hurricane Gordon moved rapidly toward the sparsely populated group of islands Tuesday, while Hurricane Helene remained a large Category 3 storm, but was expected to miss Bermuda, forecasters said.
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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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NEW ORLEANS - Stragglers streamed toward higher ground Wednesday on highways turned into one-way evacuation routes and pounding surf started eroding beaches as Hurricane Ivan roared toward the Gulf Coast with 135 mph wind.    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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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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Two storms battered the island; Ivan may spare it. Still, residents prepare for worst - or stubbornly plan to stay. By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. - Rather than roll the dice on where 160-mph Hurricane Ivan might strike, Gulf Coast residents from Florida's Panhandle all the way to the bayous of Louisiana spent Monday boarding up their houses, tying up their boats and making plans to evacuate...