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Wednesday, September 15, 2004
By Doug Simpson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — More than 1.2 mil-
ion people in metropolitan New Orleans
rere warned to get out Tuesday as 140-mph
lurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf
’oast, threatening to submerge this below-
ica-level city in what could be the most di-
lastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.
Residents streamed inland in bumper-to-
lumper traffic in an agonizingly slow exo-
samid dire warnings that Ivan could over-
vhelm New Orleans with up to 20 feet of
.chemical-polluted water. About three-
[uarters of a million more people along the
oast in Florida, Mississippi and Alabama
ilso were told to evacuate.
Forecasters said Ivan, blamed for at least
)8 deaths in the Caribbean, could reach
60mph and strengthen to Category 5, the
ighest level, by the time it blows ashore
is early as Thursday somewhere along the
ulf Coast.
“Hopefully the house will still be here
when we get back,” said Tara Chandra, a doc-
oratTulane University in New Orleans who
jacked up his car, moved plants indoors and
tied to book a Houston hotel room. Chandra
aid he wanted to ride out the storm, but his
vife wanted to evacuate: "All the new's re-
jortsare kind of freaking her out.”
With hurricane-force wind extending 105
miles from its center, Ivan could cause sig
nificant damage no matter where it strikes.
Officials ordered or strongly urged an es
timated 1.9 million people in four states to
flee to higher ground.
At 8 p.m. Tuesday, Ivan was centered
about 325 miles south-southeast of the
mouth of the Mississippi River and moving
north-northwest at 10 mph.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami
posted a hurricane warning for about a 300-
mile swath from Apalachicola in the Florida
Panhandle to New Orleans and Grand Isle in
Louisiana. Forecasters said Ivan could bring
a coastal storm surge of 10 to 16 feet, topped
by large, battering waves.
New Orleans, the nation’s largest city below
sea level, is particularly vulnerable to flooding,
and Mayor Ray Nagin was among the first to
urge residents to get out while they can. The
city’s Louis Armstrong Airport was ordered
closed Tuesday night.
Up to 10 feet below sea level in spots. New
Orleans is a bowl-shaped depression that sits be
tween the half-mile-wide Mississippi River and
Rhode Island-size Lake Pontchartrain. It relies
on a system of levees, canals and huge pumps
to keep dry.
The city has not taken a major direct
hit from a hurricane since Betsy in 1965,
when an 8- to 10-foot storm surge sub
merged parts of the city in seven feet of
water. Betsy, a Category 3 storm, was
blamed for 74 deaths in Louisiana, Mis
sissippi and Florida.
Experts said Ivan could be worse, send
ing water pouring over levees. Hooding to
the rooftops and turning streets into a toxic
brew of raw sewage, gas and chemicals from
nearby refineries.
Nagin said he would “aggressively rec
ommend” people evacuate, but that it would
be difficult to order them to, because at least
100,000 in the city rely on public transpor
tation and would have no way to leave. By
midday Tuesday, traffic on Interstate 10, the
major hurricane route out of New Orleans,
was at a near standstill, and state police
turned the interstate west of the city into a
one-way route out. U.S. Highway 59 to Ba
ton Rouge also was jammed.
In the French Quarter, businesses put
up plywood and closed their shutters. A
few people were still hanging out at Cafe
du Monde, a favorite spot for French roast
coffee and beignets, and a man playing a
trombone outside had a box full of tips.
“They said get out, but I can’t change
my flight, so 1 figure I might as well enjoy
myself,” said George Senton, of Newark,
N.J., who listened to the music. “At least
I’ll have had some good coffee and some
good music before it gets me.”
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