Environment
Hurricane Matthew 'Unlike Any Hurricane in the Modern Era'
It’s killed hundreds in Haiti and could deliver major damage from Florida to the Carolinas.
The fury of Hurricane Matthew is well in the open, with reports of more than 840 dead in Haiti, where many neighborhoods look strafed and cluster-bombed.
Now as the storm creeps up the coast of Florida, and Georgia and South Carolina after, forecasters are ringing every bell within reach about its dangers. Matthew is “unlike any hurricane in the modern era,” says the National Weather Service in Jacksonville, Florida. “A major hurricane [has] not impacted this area in 118 years, since October 2nd 1898.”