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NEWS FLASH - Massive Hurricane Threatens Florida

Published: Tue 14 Sep 1999 04:06 PM
NEWS FLASH - One million people have been ordered to evacuate the Atlantic coast by Gov. Jeb Bush and NASA has all but abandoned Cape Canaveral as Hurricane Floyd - one of the most powerful storms ever to threaten the United States this century - charged towards Florida with potentially catastrophic 155 miles per hour winds and 18 foot waves. A state of emergency has been declared.
Floyd is much larger than Hurricane Andrew which smashed Florida in 1992, causing $25 billion in damage, killing 26 people and leaving 160,000 homeless.
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