According to NHC, Hurricane Ike will cause strong winds and rain in Haiti and Dominican Republic. Recently, Haiti faced a devastating flood, caused by the tropical storm ’Hanna’, which left hundreds of people dead and hundreds of thousands of people displaced and distressed.

The NHC has warned that Ike is about 145km east of Grand Turk Island near the southern Bahamas and is expected to barrel into Cuba either on Sunday (September 7) or Monday (September 8). The NHC has also stated that according to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, that usually measures the devastating rate of a hurricane, Ike is rated at category four, which is extremely destructive in nature. It may also hit southern Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana and the rest of the US Gulf Coast. All these places were affected badly by Hurricane Gustav last week.