PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos (AP) — Hurricane Ike damaged most of the homes on Grand Turk island as it roared onto the Bahamas, raked Haiti's flooded cities with rain and threatened the Florida Keys on its way to Cuba as a ferocious Category 4 storm Sunday. Turks and Caicos premier Michael Misick said Ike damaged more than 80% of the homes on Grand Turk and South Caicos islands. Hundreds lost their roofs and all the fishermen lost boats as the hurricane made a near-direct hit. Hurricane Ike tore across Cuba with 100-mph winds Monday, sending 50-foot waves that crashed over buildings and forcing the evacuation of 900,000 people.
HAVANA (AP) — Hurricane Ike roared toward Cuba's densely populated capital of fragile historic buildings after forcing 1.2 million people to evacuate, killing at least four and ravaging homes elsewhere on the island nation. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center warned that, after passing into the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday night, Ike could strike Louisiana or Texas sometime this weekend.
GONAIVES, Haiti (AP) — Hurricane Ike's torrential rains swelled rivers across Haiti and sent floodwaters gushing into homes in the dead of night in one eastern town, killing at least 58 people. Most roads remain impassible, with bridges torn away by overflowing rivers and gaping holes preventing aid from moving by land. Three bodies were found in Gonaives on Sunday, all victims of previous storms. In all, four storms in less than a month have killed at least 319 people in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country.
- JJ Commentary: Please note that Haiti is also one of the heaviest centers for witchcraft and voodoo.
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