Katrina stamps out memories of terrible storm Ivan - Nation - Merced Sun-Star

Katrina stamps out memories of terrible storm Ivan - Nation - Merced Sun-Star: "GULF SHORES, Ala. -- People who lived through Hurricane Ivan can't forget the haunting images left by one of the strongest storms ever recorded: condo towers collapsed in roiling surf, splintered homes or flat slabs, fragments of highways lost in a sea of sand. They wish others remembered, too.

Not quite a year after Ivan all but submerged entire Caribbean islands, slammed into the Alabama and Florida coasts, deluged the Eastern Seaboard and looped back for a torrential run through Texas and Louisiana, Katrina set a new standard for hurricane horror. Ivan's terrible toll - more than $14 billion in damage in the U.S. alone, and nearly 100 dead in all - became an afterthought."