We may have been feeling the effects of Hurricane Gustav in Michiana Thursday night, but people on the East Coast were preparing for Hanna.
It's been years since residents along the east coast had to get out of the way of a hurricane. Now they are getting ready for a possible one-two punch from Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike.
Right now most of the east coast is a target.
In Wilmington, North Carolina stores are already seeing a run on bottled water and supplies. The current forecast track has Hanna taking dead aim at the Carolina coastline where she could reach hurricane strength before making landfall this weekend.
Hanna is still a tropical storm, but forecasters are not ruling out the possibility that it will intensify into a hurricane before reaching the U.S.
It has already killed more than 130 people in Haiti.
Behind the weaker Hanna is the stronger Hurricane Ike, already a powerful category 4 storm packing winds of 140 miles per hour. Ike is still several hundred miles from the Caribbean and is expected to hit the Bahamas early next week.
Many are already storm weary but it's the peak of hurricane season. And that means there's still a long way to go.
"The rest of September is supposed be to quite active but as we go into October and November the tropical season will slowly start to wind down," said NBC Weather Plus Meteorologist Britta Merwin, "but we are expecting it to stay above average."
Trailing Ike is Josephine, the tenth named storm of the fourteen to eighteen forecast for the 2008 season.
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