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Originally Posted by wildernesse
It won't be a hurricane necessarily when it gets there--and absolutely nothing like what the coast gets--but the preceding and resulting storms/rain/winds/etc. make things dangerous even with downgrading. The forecast weather alerts for everyone west of me are for high winds, possible flooding, isolated tornados--just from the remnants of Ivan.
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I've read that as the hurricane swept along western Cuba, it did not weaken because it didn't cross the mountains. Without it weakening as a hurricane would normally do crossing a land mass, and especially mountains, the extra strength it gathers in the warmer Gulf of Mexico will be killer.
If you live in the area, and you haven't evacuated already - GET THE HELL OUT NOW!!!