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Ike becomes a storm over Cuba
Jacksonville News.Net
Sunday 7th September, 2008
Hurricane Ike has been downgraded to a Category 3 storm, but meteorologists are still describing it as dangerous, with winds near 120 mph.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami has said the storm is most likely to track west to west-northwest, taking it away from the Bahamas and putting it above Cuba on Monday.
Residents of the Florida Keys, a 177-kilometre island chain connected by bridges with only one road out, were told to evacuate as a precaution.
Ike could follow a path similar to that of Hurricane Gustav through the Gulf of Mexico toward Louisiana and Texas, possibly threatening New Orleans.
Many of Cuba's 11 million people could be affected by Ike, which was expected to move ashore north of Guantanamo Bay.
Authorities in Cuba have used buses, trucks and other transportation to move thousands of tourists inland from Cuba's prime resorts along the northern coast from Guardalavaca in eastern Holguin to Varadero.
Along with parts of Cuba, a weather watch is in effect for the Florida Keys, a tropical storm warning for parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and a tropical storm watch for the Cayman Islands and Jamaica.
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