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Hurricane Ivan hits US Gulf Coast in Alabama

16 septembre 2004, 20:00

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lexpress.mu | Toute l'actualité de l'île Maurice en temps réel.

Hurricane Ivan slammed into the US Gulf Coast yesterday with destructive winds and pounding waves that ripped away beachfront homes, flooded deep inland and spawned tornadoes that killed at least two people.

Ivan?s wrath was felt over a 400-mile (640-km) stretch of the coast from the Mardi Gras city of New Orleans to the Florida Panhandle as vicious winds and heavy rain flattened trees and cut power to tens of thousands. Tens of thousands of people had evacuated in long streams of bumper-to-bumper traffic.

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