August, when Hurricane Charley battered Cuba, killing five people. Charley went on to kill nearly 30 people and cause billions of dollars of damage in Florida. Less than a month later, Florida was again pummelled by Hurricane Frances, which killed 16 people in that state, three in Georgia and South Carolina, and two in the Bahamas. In Mexico, Ivan swept by the Yucatan Peninsula, flooding some parts of the coastline, particularly Puerto Progreso. Numerous homes and shops continued to be under water Tuesday as rains sparked by Ivan continued to affect Mexico's Caribbean coast. At midday, Ivan was located 650 kilometres south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and was moving north-northwest at 14 kilometres per hour. The storm could hit the coast of the U.S. state of Alabama by late Wednesday or early Thursday. On its destructive journey across the Caribbean, Ivan knocked out electricity, toppled trees and flooded much of the Cayman Islands Sunday. It also ravaged Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. --More 2244 Local Time 1944 GMT
