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Caribbean islands assess damage from Hurricane Ike

USA Today on 12 September, 2008 09:37:26 | 2793 times read

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As a strengthening Hurricane Ike takes aim at the Texas Gulf Coast, the battered Turks and Caicos Islands are still assessing damage from the storm's passage last weekend and evacuated tourists are returning to the relatively unscathed Florida Keys.

Ike's torrential rains were blamed for at least 71 deaths in Haiti and caused widespread destruction across Cuba, where buildings crumbled in historic Havana and about 10,000 tourists were evacuated from seaside hotels.

On Sunday, it drenched the southern Bahamas and slammed into the Turks and Caicos, a British territory best known for scuba diving and exclusive resorts, as a Category 4 storm....


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