NVDL: Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Hurricane Ike strengthened to an "extremely dangerous" category four storm in the Atlantic on Saturday, according to the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC).
"Ike is now an extremely dangerous category four hurricane on the [one to five] Saffir-Simpson scale," the NHC said.
Ike also has the potential to strike the southern Florida Keys as it heads into the Gulf of Mexico, threatening Louisiana and the rest of the US Gulf Coast which last week weathered Hurricane Gustav.
"What I saw in this city today is close to hell on earth," Hedi Annabi, a UN envoy, said.
He said there were 32 confirmed deaths in this city on Haiti's west coast from the storm that hit on Monday.
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