THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. 2004
WORLD
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Hurricane slams town. U.S. students fear looters
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — The most powerful hurricane to hit Grenada in a decade killed at least 12 people, damaged 90 percent of homes and destroyed a prison, leaving criminals on the loose, officials said yesterday. American medical students were taking precautions against looters.
Before it slammed into Grenada Tuesday evening, Ivan gave Barbados and St. Vincent a pummeling, damaging hundreds of homes and cutting utilities. Thousands of people there remained without electricity and water on yesterday.
Details on the extent of the death and destruction in Grenada did not come through until yesterday because the storm cut all communications with the island of 100,000 people.
"We are terribly devastated ... it's beyond imagination," Prime Minister Keith Mitchell told his people.
Mitchell, whose own home was flattened by Ivan, said he feared the death toll would rise.
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"If you see the country today, it would be a surprise to anyone that we did not have more deaths than it appears at the moment," Grenada's Police Commissioner Roy Bedaau said.
"It looks like a landslide happened," said Sonya Lazarevic, 36, a first-year medical student from New York City at St. George's University, which overlooked the Grenadian capital. "There are all these colors coming down the mountainside — sheets of metal, pieces of shacks, roofs came off in lawers."
looters in the city would come up the hill. "We don't feel safe," she said by telephone service that was sporadic,
She said students there, mostly Americans, were arming themselves with knives, sticks and pepper spray for fear that
When she wandered downtown after the hurricane passed, Lazarevic said she saw bands of men carrying machetes looting a hardware store. She said she saw a bank with glass facade intact during one pass that was totally smashed when she returned.
While the storm passed, students hid under mattresses or in bathrooms. "The pipes were whistling, the doors were vibrating, gusts were coming underneath the window," Lazarevic said. "It was absolutely terrifying."
Debris is seen scattered through the streets yesterday, one day after Hurricane Ivan hit the village of Dennery on the coast line of Castries, Saint Lucia.
The storm strengthened even as it hit Grenada, becoming a Category 4, gathering strength and packing sustained winds of 140 mph with higher gusts as it headed across the Caribbean Sea. J
Timothy James/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jamaica by tomorrow morning or Saturday and then aim for Cuba, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
Ivan is expected to reach
"After Jamaica, it's probably
going to hit somewhere in the U.S., unfortunately," meteorologist Jennifer Pralgo of the Hurricane Center said yesterday. "We're hoping it's not Florida again, but it's taking a fairly similar
track to Charley at the moment."
Ivan is an "extremely dangerous" storm, said Hugh Cobb of the Hurricane Center, adding this grim warning: "Whoever gets this, it's going to be bad."
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