By IRNA,
Madrid : Hurricane Ike whirled across Cuba, forcing an estimated one million people to flee from its path and leading energy companies to again evacuate oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico that had been idled for Hurricane Gustav.
In the United States, Florida leaders called off an evacuation of the Florida Keys after the storm veered further south Monday over Cuba.
But Ike remained on a westward path, with forecasters predicting a strong storm making landfall along the US Gulf Coast.
For the second time in less than two weeks, the US state emergency officials began ramping up preparations in Louisiana and Texas.
They warned a weary public about the perils of hurricane fatigue.
Ike hammered the Caribbean over the weekend with winds of up to 135 miles per hour, killing at least 61 people in Haiti and four people in Cuba.