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By Sept. Wind shear reduced its intensity briefly, but it regained Category 4 strength before hitting the Turks and Caicos Islands, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba. As with Gustav, Cuba's mountains weakened Ike, greatly reducing the monster storm's strength by the time it entered the Gulf on Sept.

But Ike quickly reintensified and widened before making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane near Galveston on Sept. As it traveled along Louisiana's coastline toward its Texas landfall, Ike's surge flooded many coastal communities along the West Bank that had escaped damage during Katrina, among them Jean Lafitte and Crown Point.

The evacuation ordered for Gustav tested improvements put in place by federal, state and local emergency planners in the three years since Katrina, including the use of buses and trains to move some evacuees and trucks to evacuate animals.

But the second evacuation raised new questions about the costs borne by evacuees forced to leave their homes multiple times. Some New Orleans area residents, stung by the experience, said they would be loath to evacuate for future storms. Gustav and Ike were two of six named tropical systems in a row to make landfall in the United States, a new record.

In all, there were 16 named storms, of which eight were hurricanes. Five of those reached major hurricane status, Category 3 or above. The string of major hurricanes in five consecutive months, from July to November, also set a record. Both groups are expected to issue their first preseason forecasts for the hurricane seasons in about two weeks.