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Hurricane Ivan Rolls Toward Cuba


Sep 13, 2:23 PM (ET)

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) - A strengthened Hurricane Ivan headed toward the tip of western Cuba with 160 mph winds Monday after pummeling the Cayman Islands with flooding that swamped homes and fierce winds that ripped off roofs.

The slow-moving, extremely dangerous Category 5 storm, one of the strongest on record to hit the region, killed at least 68 people across the Caribbean before reaching the Caymans, and threatens millions more in its projected path.

Parts of low-lying Grand Cayman, the largest island in the territory of 45,000 people, were swamped under up to 8 feet of water Monday and residents stood on rooftops of flooded homes. A car floated by the second story of one building, and a resident called Radio Cayman to report seeing two bodies floating off the beach. Police said they could not confirm the report.

Ivan intensified overnight, with maximum sustained winds at 160 mph and gusts up to 195 mph, and headed for western Cuba, threatening floods in Pinar del Rio province, the center of tobacco growing and the biggest source for the island's famed cigar industry. About 1.3 million Cubans were evacuated from their homes, most taking refuge in the sturdier houses of relatives, co-workers or neighbors.

Planting season doesn't begin until the end of October and remnants of January's harvest are protected in curing houses, said Cuba's top grower, Alejandro Robaina.

"There is almost always some damage from the hurricanes, but I think we are going to escape the worst of it," Robaina told The Associated Press. "I think we will be able to stand it."

Ivan - at Category 5, the highest level on the Saffir-Simpson scale and capable of catastrophic damage - was projected to pass near or over Cuba's western end by Monday afternoon or evening on a path toward the U.S. gulf coast.

President Fidel Castro toured western Cuba Monday morning, stopping to discuss preparations with defense officials in the provincial capital of Pinar del Rio, where residents shouted "Fidel! Fidel!" read on