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Hurricane still spiralling through Caribbean
Middle East News.Net
Sunday 7th September, 2008
Hurricane Ike has roared across the low-lying Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean, causing people to seek refuge in shanty towns.
The ferocious Category 4 storm engulfed the tiny islands, packing howling winds.
Grand Turk, the capital of the Turks and Caicos, is home to about 3,000 people, and has little natural protection from the sea and expected storm surge,
With the winds forcing through at 145 miles an hour, the storm then headed for Great Inagua, the southernmost island in the Bahamas archipelago.
People on the sparsely populated island which is home to about 1,000 people and thousands of pink flamingos, locked down in a local church.
Ike's massive gray wall of clouds was last moving just south of due west at about 15 mph.
Cuba, still recovering from a devastating hit by Category 4 Hurricane Gustav last month, is directly in Ike's projected path.
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