Hurricane Matthew, the strongest Caribbean storm in almost a decade, tore across the Bahamas on this morning, with the coastal U.S. lying in its path as forecasters made a dire warning about some locations possibly being “uninhabitable for weeks.”
Nearly two million people were under evacuation orders in Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, where residents braced for a possible impact from the storm, stocking up on supplies and boarding up homes. The National Weather Service has advised that “loss of life” and “immense human suffering” is possible from wind for those who do not take precaution for the storm.
“Catastrophic damage” is also a possibility, and the storm could leave areas uninhabitable for weeks to come.
