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Hurricane Hanna Heads To East Coast, Ike Strengthens

September 4th, 2008

We’ve got more hurricanes this weekend and early next week; so people best pay attention to what’s heading there way.

A report from CNN:

Hanna closes in on U.S. as Ike becomes major hurricane

Miami, FLORIDA (CNN) — Tropical Storm Hanna churned across the Bahamas and toward the U.S. coast on Thursday, while Hurricane Ike, an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 hurricane, roared farther out in the Atlantic, its destination a mystery.

A crew takes down a lifeguard tower in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on Wednesday.

1 of 3 more photos » Hanna was about 770 miles south-southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina, at 5 a.m. ET Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

It was expected to pass just east of the Bahamas on Thursday and to reach the U.S. coast by Friday night, the center said.

A hurricane watch was in effect from Surf City, North Carolina, just north of Wilmington, to near Edisto Beach, South Carolina, between Charleston and Hilton Head. See Hanna’s projected path »

Hanna’s maximum sustained winds had picked up to near 70 mph, just short of hurricane intensity, the center said, and it could become a hurricane before reaching the U.S.

The eye of Tropical Storm Hanna passed over the Haitian city of Gonaives on Tuesday night, leaving water more than 12 feet deep in some places, according to the deputy coordinator of the civil protection service. Watch devastating floods in Haiti »

Haitian officials put the nation’s death toll in the wake of Hanna and Hurricane Gustav at 61, Abel Nabaire said…

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