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10-03-2016, 10:11 PM
Hurricane Matthew: Potential disaster looms in Haiti, eastern Cuba and Bahamas
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Powerful Hurricane Matthew is moving **rth toward Haiti, Cuba and eventually the Bahamas, bringing with it the triple threat of storm surge flooding, several feet of rain and damaging winds.*
The nation of Haiti, the poorest country (http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/haiti/overview) in the Americas, is in line for an extremely rare and extremely dangerous event: A Category 4 storm making landfall while moving from the south to **rth across part of the nation. The closest analog to Hurricane Matthew is Hurricane Hazel in 1954. Hazel also struck western Haiti, and it killed about 1,000 people (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/hurricane-hazel-a-look-back-at-the-1954-disaster-58-years-later/2012/10/14/62b95fdc-1671-11e2-9855-71f2b202721b_blog.html) there.
The storm's angle of approach matters because it affects where the strongest winds, rains and storm surge are directed. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/03/hurricane-matthew-haiti-disaster-looms/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Powerful Hurricane Matthew is moving **rth toward Haiti, Cuba and eventually the Bahamas, bringing with it the triple threat of storm surge flooding, several feet of rain and damaging winds.*
The nation of Haiti, the poorest country (http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/haiti/overview) in the Americas, is in line for an extremely rare and extremely dangerous event: A Category 4 storm making landfall while moving from the south to **rth across part of the nation. The closest analog to Hurricane Matthew is Hurricane Hazel in 1954. Hazel also struck western Haiti, and it killed about 1,000 people (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/hurricane-hazel-a-look-back-at-the-1954-disaster-58-years-later/2012/10/14/62b95fdc-1671-11e2-9855-71f2b202721b_blog.html) there.
The storm's angle of approach matters because it affects where the strongest winds, rains and storm surge are directed. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/03/hurricane-matthew-haiti-disaster-looms/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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