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COCOA BEACH, Fla. (AP) —
Heavy rain from one of the most
fearsome storms of the century be
gan to lash the coast ahead of Hur
ricane Floyd last night as evacuees
from Florida to the Carolinas
streamed inland in bumper-to-
bumper traffic.
Nearly two million people
were told to get out of the way as
Floyd skirted the north-central
Florida coast, menacing an area
from Cape Canaveral to Jack
sonville with 140 mph winds. The
monstrous, 600-mile storm — big
ger than the whole state of Flori
da — threatened to roll ashore
early tomorrow, probably in
Georgia or South Carolina.
Heavy rain began falling from
West Palm Beach to Cape Canaver
al yesterday evening, with fore
casters expecting tropical storm
winds to come ashore just before
dawn and hurricane force winds
greater than 74 mph late this morn
ing if the storm continued its cur
rent path.
By 8 p.m., Floyd was centered
205 miles east-southeast of Cape
Canaveral, moving northwest at
12 mph. Its winds had eased
from Monday’s 155 mph, but it
was still a Category 4 storm, the
second most powerful hurricane
designation.
“If this thing parallels us, it
could act like a weed-eater going
up the coast,” Craig Fugate of the
Florida Emergency Operations
Center said.
Forecasters expected the eye
of the storm to come within 50
miles of Daytona Beach early this
afternoon as it moves north.
Landfall was projected close to
Charleston, S.C., by early tomor
row, meteorologist Jeremy Pen
nington with the National Hurri
cane Center said.
Walt Disney World closed ear
ly because of the weather for the
first time in its 28-year history.
Other Orlando-area resorts like
Universal Studios and Sea World
also shut down.
At Cape Canaveral’s nearly de
serted Kennedy Space Center, 102
workers volunteered to stay behind
to ride out Floyd, which NASA
feared could destroy launch pads
and the hangars where all four
space shuttles are kept.
“Everybody else is gone,”
NASA spokesperson George
Diller, one of the volunteers, said
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tween the United Auto Workers and automakers in
tensified yesterday as agreements covering 407,000
workers were due to expire at midnight.
In the past, the union has extended contracts past
the deadline. No extension had been made by
midafternoon, but experts said a strike that would
threaten a boom year for the auto industry seems un
likely. The UAW has not called a national strike dur
ing contract negotiations since 1976.
The union, which has said little about the progress
of the talks, appeared to be negotiating hardest with
Daimler Chrysler AG.
Officials met at the German-American automaker’s
U.S. offices in Auburn Hills late into Monday night and
resumed talks early yesterday.
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but it isn’t over ’til it’s over, and we’ll all just havetc
and see,” Daimler Chrysler co-chair Robert Eatc:
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