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Ike Threat Passes Highlands

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By MARC VALERO | Highlands Today

Published: September 8, 2008

SEBRING - As Hurricane Ike moves west across Cuba, Highlands County and south Florida residents can let their guard down for this storm.

"It's going south of us; we are out of the cone of doom," Highlands County Emergency Management Director Bill Nichols said Monday morning. "We are monitoring the storm, though.

City, county and district officials met Sunday at 2 p.m. and 5:15 p.m., but took no action.

"We are doing a 'wait and see,'" Nichols said. "We haven't done any local declaration in the county. We haven't initiated any preparedness activities at this point because it looks like we are going to be in the clear on this one."

The predicted path of the hurricane shows a U.S. landfall somewhere along the gulf coast at Texas, Louisiana or Mississippi.

At 8 a.m., Hurricane Ike was over central Cuba with 100 mph winds and moving west at 14 mph.

"In the next day or so we will turn our attention out to the Atlantic again," Nichols said.
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Marc Valero can be reached at 386-5826 or mvalero@highlandstoday.com

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