Six Years Ago This Week

The key in this 1999 BBC story is the action -- i.e, "cut short a trip" -- that President Clinton took before the Hurricane Floyd made landfall.

Nervous residents along the Florida and Georgia coastline are monitoring the uncertain path of Hurricane Floyd as it passes over the Bahamas and heads towards the US mainland.

Up to two million people have left their homes as they try to escape the worst effects of the storm.

US President Bill Clinton cut short a trip to New Zealand and declared a federal state of emergency in both states because of the approaching hurricane.