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NAPLES — Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without much fanfare, but stubbornly hung around like an unwelcome houseguest, maintaining strength and threatening — once again — to become a hurricane. The storm first hit the Florida Keys, veered out to sea and then traversed east across the state on a path that would curve it toward to the Florida-Georgia border. The failure of Fay to weaken meant a whole new swath of the state had to prepare for a worse storm, and meant Florida could wind up getting hit three separate times. This storm is going to be with us for a while. That's obvious now. It looks it could be a boomerang storm," Gov. Charlie Crist said at a news conference. Earlier in the day, it had appeared that Fay would simply peter out and perhaps bring nothing but heavy rains to the Southeast. But by late Tuesday, a hurricane watch was posted for parts of north Florida and Georgia. Its top sustained winds increased for several hours durin...
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