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MIAMI -- Tropical Storm Gustav closed in on Jamaica Thursday at near-hurricane strength as the death toll in Haiti rose to 51 while Tropical Storm Hanna formed in the Atlantic. Hanna, the eighth named storm of the 2008 hurricane season, is spinning ...
Read moreTropical Storm Hanna forms as Gustav soaks Jamaica - Miami Herald
KINGSTON, Jamaica : The spinning core of Gustav bore down on southern Jamaica on Thursday after leaving 67 people dead in Hispaniola. Texas and Louisiana put their national guards on standby, and New Orleans said a mandatory evacuation might be ...
Read moreTourists, residents flee as Gustav swamps Jamaica - International Herald Tribune
MIAMI | Tropical Storm Gustav whipped Jamaica with fierce rain and wind Thursday and threatened to grow back into a hurricane before striking the Cayman Islands today. No fatalities were reported in Jamaica, but the death toll continued to mount ...
Read moreGustav strengthens, pummels Jamaica - Myrtle Beach Online
Tropical Storm Gustav whipped Jamaica with fierce rain and wind Thursday and threatened to grow back into a hurricane before striking the Cayman Islands on Friday. No fatalities were reported in Jamaica, but the death toll continued to mount ...
Read moreTropical Storm Gustav threatens Cayman Islands - Miami Herald
A storm, which had a northwest trajectory and seemed set to pass between Jamaica's north coast and Cuba's south coast, decided overnight that it needed to pay Jamaica a visit. So, what it did was to take a southwest turn, where it would line up ...
Read moreGustav disorganised by Haiti's hilly terrain - Jamaica Gleaner
The first leg of the inaugural CONCACAF Champions League, between Caribbean Club champions Harbour View and Pumas Unam of Mexico, will be played tonight at 9 in the Harbour View Mini Stadium, weather permitting. Tomorrow's Jamaica Cricket Association ...
Read moreGustav closes down some sports - Jamaica Gleaner
Forecasters said parts of Jamaica could get 25 inches of rain, which could trigger landslides and cause serious crop damage. Grand Cayman is bracing for a possible strike Friday. A resort owner said Gustav doesn't look as threatening as Hurricane ...
Read moreGustav Bears Down On Jamaica - CBS 46
Trucks haul shipping containers out of the Mississippi State Port at Gulfport on Thursday, August 28, 2008, in preparation for Hurricane Gustav. Containers from the port were turned into battering rams causing extensive damage during Hurricane ...
Read moreGustav strengthens as it cuts swath through Caribbean - Miami Herald
Residents and tourists alike fled Jamaica as a strengthening tropical storm Gustav lurched toward the island Thursday after triggering floods and landslides that killed at least 59 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of ...
Read moreGustav claims 59 lives in Haiti and Dominican Republic - CBC News
(CNN) -- Tropical Storm Gustav dumped torrential rainfall over parts of Haiti early Wednesday, and forecasters warned of potentially dangerous weather for parts of Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. A woman works in a flooded street caused by ...
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