Hurricane Matthew: Potential disaster looms in Haiti, eastern Cuba and Bahamas
 

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 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 there.

The storm's angle of approach matters because it affects where the strongest winds, rains and storm surge are directed. Read more...

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