Already large tracts of the sprawling city are nearly unrecognizable, as if a hurricane had ripped through town.

With winds up to 120 miles an hour, the hurricane ripped the roofs off homes and left roads a tangled mess of downed trees.

Flower shops and travel agencies looked as if a hurricane had ripped them apart.

In 1924 a "hurricane" ripped through the valley damaging the town, and a fire in early December 1925 wiped out more of the central business district.

"A strong hurricane could rip it off its moorings."

They were smashed by a 397-foot runaway barge that the hurricane ripped from its moorings.

It is like a hurricane has ripped through their house.

Fearless came screaming back on a reciprocal of her original course, and a hurricane of energy fire ripped through Principality's sidewall as if it hadn't existed.

Ms. Hosler said the Red Cross response would probably surpass its efforts last year when four hurricanes ripped across Florida in quick succession.

Maggie O'Sullivan, who was on Grenada when a hurricane ripped across it, returns to find the island determined to be better than ever.