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Article: Hurricane Georges rips up Caribbean, killing dozens Storm rages through Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Haiti
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 24, 1998
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Hurricane Georges reached Cuba and threatened the Florida Keys
Wednesday after making a shambles of much of Puerto Rico, the
Dominican Republic and Haiti in a furious march that killed at least
50 people and probably many more.
The effects of the storm were expected to be felt as far south as
Jamaica, where officials expected heavy rains.
The mammoth storm was on a trajectory that could send it crashing
into the Florida Keys by late today.
As many as 80,000 people were ordered to begin evacuating the
exposed Florida Keys, and cars, trucks and sport utility vehicles
streamed along the highway linking the island chain to the Florida
mainland.
Georges first hit the small islands of the ...