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Published on Sunday, September 07, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
KEY WEST, Fla. - Hurricane Ike grew to fierce Category 4 strength Saturday as it plodded on an uncertain path that forced millions along an arc of coastline from the Caribbean to Florida, and Louisiana to Mexico to nervously wonder where it would end up.
Preparations stretched more than 1,000 miles, from normally idyllic island chains through Florida and the Gulf Coast, where people all too familiar with devastating storms were worrying again as Ike's winds picked up to 135-mph power.
First in Ike's path was the low-lying British territory of Turks and Caicos, already pummeled for four days this week by Tropical Storm Hanna. At the airport in Providenciales, Patrick Munroe had hoped to catch a departing flight, but was turned away, even before the airport shuttered.
"It looks really, really serious," he said. "And I think it's going to be devastating
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