Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BROWNSVILLE, Texas--Thousands of coastal residents from Mexico to Louisiana fled to higher ground yesterday as fierce Hurricane Gilbert sent the first of its storms against Texas after thrashing the Yucatan Peninsula...
...weather service said warnings might be extended northward, depending upon Gilbert's path...
...Gilbert surged into the gulf after battering the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico with 160 mph winds, forcing tens of thousands to flee...
After crossing the peninsula, Gilbert's winds weakened to 120 mph, but forecasters predicted the storm would intensify again as it moves over open water...
Herb Schoenbaum, a radio ham operator in the Virgin Islands, said he spoke yesterday with Dave Porter, an American staying in the Wyndham Hotel on Jamaica's Montego Bay. "Porter reported that the hotel `peeled apart like a banana' when the force of Hurricane Gilbert hit last night," Schoenbaum said...