KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - In an all-too-familiar drill, Floridians got out of town or boarded up their windows and stocked up on canned food Friday as Hurricane Ivan threatened the state with its third thrashing in a month.
Business owners in the Florida Keys faced another bad weekend as tourists and residents fleeing the storm crowded the lone highway that leads to the mainland.
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Around the state, meanwhile, more than three-quarters of a million victims of last weekend's Hurricane Frances were still without electricity in the almost 90-degree heat and high humidity, and thousands had to cope with sewage backups in Palm Beach County. Ivan is expected to arrive in the Keys on Monday, exactly a month after Hurricane Charley ripped across the state from the west. Fatigued residents covered windows with shutters and plywood. Ivan, with winds of up to 145 mph Friday, left at least 37 ' people dead as it continued its march across the Caribbean. Source: Arizona Daily Sun (Saturday, Sept. 11, 2004, A4) |
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