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As Hurricane Matthew traveled rapidly towards the southeastern region of the United States, it hit closely to the coasts of Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina. On October 7 in Fernandina Beach, Florida, there was a peak surge of 9.88 ft (3.01 m) above normal.
Hurricane Matthew was the strongest tropical cyclone to threaten and impact Florida since Hurricane Wilma in 2005. Developing into a tropical storm on September 28, Matthew underwent rapid intensification, strengthening to a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 165 mph (266 km/h) by October 1. After slight weakening, Matthew made two landfalls in ...
At 8:30 a.m., DaSilva said AccuWeather is predicting Invest 97L could make landfall as a Category 2 hurricane, but that forecast is likely to change later today to a Category 3 storm.
A hurricane evacuation route (also called coastal evacuation route or evacuation route) is a highway in the United States that is a specified route for hurricane evacuation. Along the Gulf Coast, hurricane evacuation routes lead north and west for up to hundreds of miles to the safest major city. Along the Atlantic Coast, routes lead west.
A hurricane warning was issued for parts of Florida’s Gulf Coast, from Anclote River to Mexico Beach, according to the National Hurricane Center’s 11 p.m. ETadvisory.
Ahead of Hurricane Matthew in 2016, Waffle House preemptively closed 25 restaurants in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. The chain followed suit in 2022, closing 21 locations in Florida that ...
Florida power outage map. As of 1:45 p.m. ET Thursday, Florida was reporting just under 48,000 power outages across the state, according to a USA TODAY power outage tracker. That number is ...
The destructive effects of Hurricane Matthew left about 12.9% of Haiti's population – 1.4 million people – in need of humanitarian assistance, [91] of whom about 40% were children and another 40% were women of reproductive age. [92] It was the largest disaster in the country since the 2010 earthquake. [91]