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Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 2:29 am:

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MANILA, Philippines - The fourth typhoon to lash the Philippines in a month brought pounding rain and winds to the eastern coast early Saturday as it barreled toward Manila along the same path as an earlier storm that left the capital still partially submerged.

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Posted on Sunday, November 1, 2009 - 4:20 am:

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MANILA, Philippines - A typhoon battered the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces still reeling from recent flooding, sending residents of one town clambering onto rooftops Saturday to escape rising waters. At least seven people died and at least five were missing.

Typhoon Mirinae was the fourth storm to lash the northern Philippines since late September and brought new hardship to areas still struggling in the wake of the previous disasters.

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Posted on Monday, November 2, 2009 - 5:30 am:

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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Vietnam evacuated coastal areas Monday as tropical storm Mirinae approached after battering the Philippines, where it left 20 people dead.

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Posted on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 3:03 pm:

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HANOI, Vietnam - Tropical Storm Mirinae unleashed severe flooding in parts of central Vietnam, killing 23 people, leaving two missing and stranding families on rooftops, disaster officials said Tuesday.

The death toll in the hardest-hit province of Phu Yen was 15 after the storm drenched the region with heavy rain Monday, said disaster official Dang Thi Lanh.

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Posted on Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 5:10 am:

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MIAMI - Tropical storm Ida was gaining strength in the southwest Caribbean, prompting a hurricane watch for the eastern coast of Nicaragua and storm warnings for two Colombian islands.

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Posted on Friday, November 6, 2009 - 6:17 am:

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(7:15 p.m. EST) -- Tropical Storm Ida has weakened over the eastern coast of Nicaragua, with maximum sustained winds down to 40 m.p.h. Although the storm is likely to become a tropical depression, it has forced a Princess cruise ship to alter its itinerary.

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Posted on Saturday, November 7, 2009 - 7:45 am:

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MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression on Friday and forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading toward the U.S. via the Gulf of Mexico.

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Posted on Sunday, November 8, 2009 - 7:12 am:

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(9:45 p.m. EST) -- Ida has, as predicted, made a resurgence. A tropical depression last night, Ida's now a tropical storm and is forecast to achieve lower category hurricane status over the next 24 hours. At this point, affected cruise ports could include Cozumel and Grand Cayman. Cruise lines that had planned to call either this weekend or on Monday have rearranged schedules.

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Posted on Monday, November 9, 2009 - 5:43 am:

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Two storms are stirring up weather in the Gulf of Mexico that will affect the production of the energy industry beginning this weekend and continuing into Monday.

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Posted on Monday, November 9, 2009 - 6:29 am:

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(9:30 p.m. EST) -- Hurricane Ida, now a category two hurricane, has finished pounding Mexico's Caribbean coast and Grand Cayman and is now setting its sights on the U.S. Gulf Coast. A hurricane watch is in effect from Eastern Louisiana to Florida's panhandle.

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Posted on Monday, November 9, 2009 - 3:30 pm:

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NEW ORLEANS - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency Monday, even as Ida weakened to tropical storm status and chugged toward the Gulf Coast.

Despite warnings extending more than 200 miles across several states, residents seemed to take the first Atlantic hurricane to target the U.S. this season in stride.

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Posted on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 5:44 am:

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(6:30 p.m. EST) -- Tropical Storm Ida has finished pounding Mexico's Caribbean coast and Grand Cayman and is now headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast.

A tropical storm warning is in effect from Grand Isle Louisiana to the Aucilla River in Florida, including New Orleans. A storm warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere in the area in the next 24 hours, according to the National Hurricane Center.

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Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 4:01 am:

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(6:30 p.m. EST) -- After being downgraded to a tropical storm, Ida hit the U.S. Gulf Coast last night. According to the Associated Press, the storm caused some flooding and other damage after killing more than 130 people in El Salvador and leaving about 13,000 homeless in Nicaragua.

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Posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 1:44 am:

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GULF SHORES, Ala. - Coastal areas between North Carolina and Maryland were warned to prepare for high winds, heavy rain, power outages and possible beach-area flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

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Posted on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 5:48 am:

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OCEAN CITY, N.J. - A powerful storm born from the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida began moving out to sea Friday after raking the East Coast for three days, leaving behind it a trail of flooding, damaged buildings, eroded beaches and several deaths.

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