NEWS
September 15, 1999 | MIKE CLARY and MARK FINEMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Wind and the early rain of Hurricane Floyd, a storm bigger than half of California, licked across silver-sand beaches stretching from Florida north to the Carolinas on Tuesday as 2 million people were urged to flee and residents of the Bahamas began assessing their damage. Floyd churned northwest, and forecasters said it could strike the southeastern United States with full force late today.