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More than 2 million residents along a 300-mile stretch of the Gulf Coast cleared out as Ivan, a former GREG LOVETT - P* 165-mph monster that killed 70 people in the Caribl closed in on an unsteady path, me storm was blame at least 20 U.S. deaths, most of them in Florida. TheO exas R< logers' :ive victi ;eum wi (ept the )f the Ar Storm-weary Florida bear. brunt of Hurricane Ivan TheF leled tl an 8-; ;ames t ader By Pauline Arrillaga THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PENSACOLA, Fla. — Hurri cane Ivan drilled the Gulf Coast on Thursday with 130-mph winds that inflicted far less dam age than feared everywhere ex cept Florida’s Panhandle, where residents were left with surge- ravaged beach fronts, flooded streets and homes ripped apart by deadly tornadoes. “We were prepared for the hur ricane, but the tornadoes were bam, bam, bam,” said Glenda Nichols, manager of the Microtel Inn in Marianna, Fla. “There was nothing we could do about it. 1 put all my guests in their rooms and told them to get in the bathtubs.” Ivan quickly deteriorated to a tropical storm after coming ashore. But forecasters warned it was not done yet: It threatened up to 15 inches of rain and flooding across the South, already soggy after Hurricanes Charley and Frances over the past month. And more danger could be on the horizon: Tropical Storm Jeanne is tearing through the Caribbean on a path that could take it into Florida early next week as a hurricane. Ivan spun off at least a dozen tor nadoes in Florida, while creating a stomi surge of 10 to 16 feet, topped by large battering waves. A portion of a bridge on Interstate 10, the ma jor east-west highway through the Panhandle, was washed away. The death toll included 13 in Florida, two in Mississippi, and one in Georgia. In Louisiana, four evacuees died after being taken from their storm-threatened homes to safer parts of the state. Many of the millions of Gulf Coast residents who spent a fright ening night in shelters and boarded- up homes emerged to find Ivan was not the catastrophe many feared. New Orleans, especially vulner able to stonns because much of it lies below sea level, got only some blustery winds, a mere two-tenths of an inch of rain and only some downed tree limbs. By Thursday morning, French Quarter tourists came out of their hotels to sip cafe au lait under brilliant sunshine. “1 know I’m going to hear from the Monday morning quar terbacks,” said New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who had urged the metropolitan area’s 1.2 million residents to flee three days ahead of the storm. But he added: “Look at the scenes from Mobile and Pensacola — that could have been us.” Ivan’s surf pounded Alabama beach front resorts for hours, leav ing condominium towers standing in a lake of floodwaters, at least one five-story building crumbling in sand and sending some island homes into the Gulf of Mexico. An initial damage assessment in Gulf Shores found gutted shops, buckled concrete parking lots, and beach front roads deep in sand. “The rain was going sideways. You could hear metal bending. It was just bad. It was my first one and there won’t be a second,” said Deb Harwich, who rode out the storm in a motel near Gulf Shores Beach. Hundreds of thousands of Curt people were without eluding 60 percent of QiifPo} er Co.’s customers in Mi “It’s catastrophic. ThCekcii system it has taken us 80ye® build was basically destroyed eight hours,” said spokesmanJo Hutchinson, adding that it take three weeks to restore po' Dennis Mace, a constra worker and tree trimmer, ready to begin helping with' cleanup. “Business is good,: people are just sick of it,” hes Mace added that he had see sign on a house that summed people’s troubles: “1 Charle; Frances, 3 Ivan, 4 Sale.” In the Panhandle, desired was seemingly around everys ncr. Huge magnolia trees had': en across the streets, and theft of a 25-foot palm had snapf about eight feet off the groie Bricks from St. Paul’s Uni Methodist Church in Pensafi lay in heaps beside the buildini Traffic lights lay shattered the road. Telephone poles lean over at precipitous angles,: wires sagging to the ground just feet above it. Liz Robinson sat on then near where her house oncesti her eyes rimmed with tears, home was flattened when roof came crashing down. “That was my house," said, pointing at a pile ofutif ognizable debris. “I just want: pictures, my mementos. “It’s over,” she said, her breaking. She walked aw without another word —wip: tears from her eyes. MLB the Boston I victory c Devil Ra TheC pace in 1 •allying t leds 5-d Members of NSCS National Society of Collegiate Scholars INDUCTION: Sept. 19, 2004 Check in starts at 1pm at Rudder Auditorium 1 FIRST CHAPTER MEETING: Sept. 22, 2004 Koldus 110 7:30pm c Start an awesome year out with service!! Questions???: AmberMMcD@aol.com