Forecasters warned it could hit the U.S. coast by midweek. "The storm's on top of us right now, and it's blowing really hard," said Miguel Campbell, a mechanic with the Bahamas Electricity Corp. on the island of Mayaguana, the easternmost in the Bahamas, where some 300 people were hunkered down at home or in a government shelter.

cnn 10:14:00 PM CEST

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Keywords: Haiti, United states / Tropical Storm Gustav, National Hurricane Center / winds, kph, mph, bahamas, people

Start date: Monday, September 1, 2008

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