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Hurricane Ike Continues On an Erratic Path

After tearing through the Caribbean earlier this week, Hurricane Ike is taking direct aim at Galveston and Houston. The National Weather Service warns anyone that stays in low-lying coastal areas "may face certain death" if they refuse to evacuate. Ike is expected to hit with a 20- to 25- storm surge and winds of perhaps 115 miles per hour.

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Storm Evacuees Are Told to Stay Away
Article | GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 15 -- Rescuers reached devastated corners of the Texas Gulf Coast by helicopter Monday, searching for stranded survivors and assessing the wreckage left by Hurricane Ike, while millions of people as far away as Ohio coped with the remnants of the storm.
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Article | CABARET, Haiti, Sept. 9 -- Three times in the past month, the river rose toward Andre Jean Compae's cassava garden and three times, he watched it subside. So when his neighbors in this coastal Haitian town began running for safety as the latest rains came, Compae gathered his wife and seven children...
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Article | HOUSTON, Sept. 12 -- Hurricane Ike, a massive storm almost the size of Texas, strengthened late Friday and churned toward that state's coast, forcing the shutdown of refineries and oil and gas rigs, and leaving millions of people in and around the nation's fourth-largest city hunkered down and...
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Hurricane Ike Continues On an Erratic Path
Photos | After tearing through the Caribbean earlier this week, Hurricane Ike is taking direct aim at Galveston and Houston. The National Weather Service warns anyone that stays in low-lying coastal areas "may face certain death" if they refuse to evacuate. Ike is expected to hit with a 20- to 25- storm surge and winds of perhaps 115 miles per hour.

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