"I cannot emphasize enough to the folks that live in the Florida Keys: A hurricane is coming," Gov. Jeb Bush told state residents Sunday afternoon.

The entire southern Florida peninsula has been under a hurricane warning since Saturday, with an estimated 160,000 residents told to evacuate, but many in the low-lying Keys island chain stayed.

Fewer than 10 percent of the Keys' 78,000 residents evacuated, Monroe County Sheriff Richard Roth said.

"I'm disappointed, but I understand it," Roth said. "They're tired of leaving because of the limited damage they sustained during the last three hurricanes."

Wilma was Florida's eighth hurricane since August 2004 and the fourth evacuation of the Keys this year.

But Wilma had already proved its damaging potential as it battered the Mexican coastline with howling winds and torrential rains, killing at least three people. Thirteen others died in Jamaica and Haiti, and four bodies were found off Cozumel, though it wasn't clear if......

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1. Strengthening Wilma Speeds Toward Florida
   

   Strengthening Wilma Speeds Toward Florida. "I cannot emphasize enough to the folks
   that live in the Florida Keys: A hurricane is coming," Gov. ... ...