Waiting for Ike
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Becca Tipton writes the phone number of La Trattoria restaurant on the plywood boarding up the front windows in Key West, Fla. in preparation for Hurricane Ike Sunday.
KEY WEST, Fla. — With powerful Hurricane Ike on an uncertain course toward the Gulf of Mexico, many on these low-lying islands took a wait-and-see approach to evacuating Sunday, perhaps a harbinger of attitudes to come from Gulf Coast residents returning from an arduous evacuation and already showing signs of ‘‘hurricane fatigue.’’ Forecasts show Ike bearing down on Cuba and skirting Key West early Tuesday on a trek to the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, slowly strengthening to perhaps Category 3 strength on its way to a landfall late in the week somewhere between the Florida Panhandle and the Texas coast. And once again, New Orleans — still recovering from the weaker-than-expected Gustav — is squarely in the crosshairs. In Key West, evacuation orders became mandatory Sunday for tourists and the approximately 25,000 residents alike, but traffic off the lone highway from the island was steady rather than jammed.
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