PENSACOLA, Fla. (Reuters) - Hurricane Dennis raced ashore on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Sunday with ferocious 120-mph (195 kph) winds and pounding waves that battered an area still scarred by last year's storms.
Before it hit land, Dennis weakened from a powerful Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale to a Category 3, and while its rapid pace may have limited the damage it could inflict, the storm felled trees and power lines.
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