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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (68325)9/9/2004 9:12:58 AM
From: John Carragher  Read Replies (2) of 793939
 
ot latest track for Ivan is right up the middle of Florida according to radio .

Florida Keys to be evacuated because of Hurricane Ivan

Associated Press

KEY WEST, Fla. - Emergency officials began the total evacuation of the Florida Keys on Thursday because the powerful Hurricane Ivan could hit the island chain as early as Sunday.

All tourists, recreational vehicles and mobile home residents were urged to evacuate the Florida Keys beginning Thursday. A phased evacuation of Monroe County's other residents will begin Friday. About 79,000 people live in the Keys.

National Hurricane Center forecasters predict that Ivan could hit the Keys late Sunday or early Monday before possibly hitting the Florida mainland later Monday. The Category 5 storm was packing top sustained winds of 160 mph at 8 a.m Thursday and was about 1,000 miles southeast of Miami and 455 southeast of Kingston, Jamaica. The storm could weaken to a Category 4 if it hits Cuba before approaching the Keys, forecasters said.

Monroe County emergency officials said the evacuation order was effective for visitors at 9 a.m. Thursday. It is the third time visitors have been ordered out of the Keys in a month, the previous two coming for Hurricanes Charley and Frances.

Mobile home residents were urged to begin evacuating at 6 p.m. Thursday.

"I don't think that people will think twice when we tell them it's a Four heading right at us. I think they will be pretty responsive," said Monroe County emergency manager Irene Toner, who supervises the Florida Keys.
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