{"id":411,"date":"2008-09-08T13:20:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T19:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2008-09-08T13:27:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T19:27:58","slug":"hurricane-ike-hits-cuba-texas-and-louisiana-watch-closely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/hurricane-ike-hits-cuba-texas-and-louisiana-watch-closely\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Ike hits Cuba; Texas and Louisiana watch closely"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Satellite imagery of Hurricane Ike as it passed over Cuba. Click for larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hurricane Ike continues to wreak havoc on its trek west as it struck Cuba Monday morning.\u00a0 The storm made landfall as a category 3 storm but has since been downgraded to a category 2 with sustained winds of 100 mph.\u00a0 Four storms have\u00a0claimed 321 lives in Haiti, 59 from Ike alone,\u00a0but thus far no deaths in Cuba have been reported.\u00a0 Ike is however expected to make a near direct hit to Havana where old, decaying historic buildings are quite vulnerable.<\/p>\n

The Florida Keys which had been under an evacuation order now appear to have escaped Ike’s wrath.\u00a0 Residents along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast however may not be so lucky.\u00a0 The current predicted path has the hurricane heading northwest toward those areas with a potential landfall Saturday sometime.\u00a0 Worst of all, as the storm enters and transits the Gulf of Mexico, it is expected to regain strength, returning to its category 3 status.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Satellite image of Hurricane Ike showing its predicted path as of Monday. Click for larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Orleans, which is still recovering from Hurricane Gustav, is naturally on edge.\u00a0 Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Sunday for Hurricane\u00a0Ike and warned residents to be ready to evacuate again.\u00a0 The concern of course is that residents will let “hurricane fatigue” set in and fail to evacuate if it is required.\u00a0“We are likely going to have to become accustomed to evacuating more frequently than when we were younger,” Jindal said.<\/p>\n

For the latest on the storm\u2019s location, please visit the <\/strong>ThorntonWeather.com Hurricane Tracker<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hurricane Ike continues to wreak havoc on its trek west as it struck Cuba Monday morning.\u00a0 The storm made landfall as a category 3 storm but has since been downgraded to a category 2 with sustained winds of 100 mph.\u00a0 Four storms have\u00a0claimed 321 lives in Haiti, 59 from Ike alone,\u00a0but thus far no deaths … Continue reading Hurricane Ike hits Cuba; Texas and Louisiana watch closely<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}