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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2004
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Damon Hickman, left, and Lashone Glover play cards with neighbor children yesterday in Mobile, Ala., at the LeFlore High School shelter. Hurricane Ivan is slated to make landfall in the area early today.
People flee, prepare for Ivan
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOBILE, Ala. — Hurricane Ivan and its 135-mph winds churned toward the Gulf Coast with frightening intensity yesterday, spawning monster waves that toppled beach houses and spinning off tornadoes that killed at least two people.
The storm was expected to make landfall early today near Mobile and could swamp the coastline with a 16-storm surge and up to 15 inches of rain. As Ivan finished its menacing advance, it offered a preview of its destruction: Sheets of rain across the coast, a series of tornadoes and escalating winds that knocked out power and made traffic lights whipsaw.
In the Florida Panhandle near Panama City, tornadoes spawned by the storm killed two people and trapped others in the rubble of their damaged homes.
"We have a report from a deputy that it looks like a war zone," said sheriff's spokeswoman Ruth Sasser.
wolffan Reid bases Hurricane-force winds extended out 105 miles from the Category 4 storm, threatening widespread damage no matter where it strikes.
After reaching land, Ivan threatened to stall over the Southeast and southern Appalachians, with a potential for as much as 20 inches of rain.
At 7 p.m. yesterday, Ivan was
centered about 105 miles south of the Alabama coast and was moving north at 14 mph. The storm, which plowed through the Caribbean, has now killed at least 70 people in all.
least 70 people in ivan's waves — some up to 25 feet were already destroying homes along the Florida coast yesterday.
Twelve-foot waves boomed ashore at Gulf Shores, Ala. eroding the beach.
New Orleans scrambled 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.
buildings.
Of the roughly 2 million who fled, often in bumper-to-bumper caravans on highways turned into one-way evacuation routes,
1.2 million were from greater New Orleans, a city particularly vulnerable to hurricanes because it sits below sea level.
An 11th-hour turn may have spared the bowl-shaped city a direct hit, but officials warned that the levees and pumping stations that normally hold back the water may not be enough to protect the city.
"If we turn up dead tomorrow, it's my fault," said Jane Allinder, who stayed stubbornly behind at her daughter's French Quarter doll shop to watch her cat.
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"I think it's safe to say we will have flooding in this city," said Mayor Ray Nagin.
However, he contradicted a statement from his emergency preparedness director that the city needed at least 10,000 body bags to handle possible drowning victims.
Thousands of tourists were believed stranded in New Orleans, along with 100,000 mostly inner-city residents without cars.
out cars. The mayor advised them to resort to "vertical evacuations," suggesting they take shelter in buildings taller than two stories.
two stories.
If that is not possible, he said, they should go into an attic and take equipment with them that would let allow them to cut through the roof and get out.
out.
Frail, elderly and sick residents unable to get out were moved to the 72,000-seat Louisiana Superdome, where 200 cots in upper-deck concourses supplanted the dome's usual tenant, the New Orleans Saints.
LuLinda Williams wep after dropping off her bedridden grandmother, who is on oxygen, at the Superdome. Only one family member was allowed to stay with each patient, so Williams left her daughter.
daughter "I thought they'd let the family stay with them," Williams said. "Where are the rest of us supposed to go now? How are we supposed to know she's OK?"
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Kansas resident dies from severe case of West Nile
TOPEKA — A 78-year-old southwest Kansas resident has become the state's first recorded fatality this year due to West Nile, health officials announced yesterday.
sunday.
The victim fell ill Sept. 5 and died in the last week, said Sharon Watson, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The victim had the more severe, neurological form of West Nile.
The fatal case of West Nile was one of 17 reported to the health department in Kansas so far this year. Health officials were unsure how many individuals with West Nile remained hospitalized yesterday.
Officials would not release further details on the individual or how the illness was contracted.
Last year, the health department confirmed 90 human West Nile virus cases and seven deaths. Private labs reported an additional 731 cases, with three deaths.
Watson could not explain the drastic drop-off in the disease but said it appeared to follow West Nile's progression, from its first appearance in this country in the Northeast, through the middle of the nation, to the West Coast.
West Nile is carried by birds and transmitted by mosquitoes that bite the birds, then horses or humans. Severe cases can lead to encephalitis, a swelling of the brain, or meningitis, a swelling of the lining around the brain and spinal cord.
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