As Ivan rips into Jamaica, Florida battens down again
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FIRST, Charley tore through western Florida, sending more than a million people fleeing and turning homes into matchwood. Then, Frances arrived, dumping yachts on to freeways and drenching the state with days of torrential rain.
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Ivan strengthened to a Category 5  hurricane, sweeping toward Jamaica on Thursday after killing at  least 20 people in the tiny spice island of Grenada.
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Hurricane Ivan strengthened to a rare Category 5 storm capable of catastrophic damage, leaving Jamaica and aiming for the Cayman Islands with winds reaching 165 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Saturday. Ivan has killed 56 people across the Caribbean so far this week, including 34 in Grenada and 11 in Jamaica.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Jamaicans rushed to  supermarkets and schools closed as Hurricane Ivan swept toward  the Caribbean island with 160-mph winds on Thursday after  killing at least 20 people on the tiny spice island of Grenada.
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Waves two-stories high crashed on Jamaica's eastern shore Friday, flooding homes and washing away roads as Hurricane Ivan's ferocious winds and pounding rains began to lash the island and threatened a direct hit on its densely populated capital. The death toll elsewhere in the Caribbean rose to 37.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan lashed Jamaica with giant waves and winds nearing 155 mph early Saturday, but as panicked residents braced for a direct hit, the storm unexpectedly wobbled and lurched west, possibly sparing the island the worst of its fury.    The change in course could be good news for hurricane-weary Florida, since Ivan may now head off into the Gulf of Mexico...
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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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Hurricane Ivan strengthened to 265 kilometres per hour Friday afternoon, as it left Jamaica and aimed for the Cayman Islands, a rare Category 5 storm capable of catastrophic damage, the US National Hurricane Center in Miami
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Hurricane Ivan, fresh from chewing up Grenada, churned toward Jamaica on Thursday, perhaps en route to a jittery Florida, where evacuations were already under way in the Keys.
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Floridians kept watch Friday for a third killer storm in four weeks as powerful Hurricane Ivan pummeled Jamaica and forced thousands to flee the Florida Keys.
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Hurricane Ivan, one of the fiercest Atlantic storms recorded, has grown even more powerful and is heading toward Cuba after it pummelled the Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Grenada, killing at least 65 people.
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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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BULL BAY, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan's monstrous waves and torrential rains smashed homes, uprooted trees and killed at least five people in Jamaica on Saturday, but a last-minute "wobble" spares the island the full force of the storm's 155-mph fury.    The course change could be good news for hurricane-fatigued Floridians, but people in the Cayman Islands and western Cuba braced for the worst as Ivan headed their way...
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Jamaica is bracing for Hurricane Ivan, as the Category Five storm cuts a path across the Caribbean to possibly strike the island Friday.
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urricane Ivan, hovering southeast of Jamaica, raged into a Category 5 storm this morning as its winds whipped up to 160 miles per hour, and skittish officials in storm weary southern Florida began evacuating some people from the Keys.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Hurricane Ivan, one of the  most powerful storms the Caribbean has ever seen, began to lash  the tiny Cayman Islands on Sunday after gutting homes and  washing away roads in Jamaica and killing 44 people throughout  the Caribbean.
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Hurricane Ivan, raking a trail of devastation through the Caribbean, bore down on the tiny Cayman Islands Sunday after wrecking Jamaica and Grenada.