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Posted on 10/07/2016 12:52:15 PM PDT by Dave346
Hurricane Matthew battered the Florida coast today with powerful winds, potentially devastating storm surges and torrential rain, leaving over 1 million people without power as officials made last-minute appeals for any remaining holdouts to get out of harm's way.
Matthew also claimed its first U.S. victims after officials in St. Lucie County, Florida, said two people died overnight when emergency officials could not get to them because of the storm's strong winds.
One victim, a woman in her late 50s, died from cardiac arrest, according to St. Lucie fire department officials. Crews could not safely respond to her location and the woman died by the time crews arrived, officials said.
Later in the night, there was a report of an unconscious 82-year-old man breathing with difficulty. "When it was deemed safe for emergency vehicles to travel it was reported to first responders that the patient had been taken to the hospital," according to officials. The man was later declared dead.
The hurricane has already claimed hundreds of lives as it tore through Haiti and other Caribbean nations.
The National Hurricane Center downgraded the storm to a Category 3 hurricane with 120 mph winds at 2 a.m. ET today. The deadly storm could produce a potentially devastating storm surge of up to 10 feet over about 500 miles of coast that stretches from Florida, to Georgia and up into South Carolina.
As of 2 p.m. ET, Hurricane Matthew was 60 miles southeast of Jacksonville, Florida.
Severe flooding struck the beach in Jacksonville this afternoon, inundating the area with water and crushing dunes.
The storm is expected to move near or over the coast of northeast Florida and the coast of Georgia through tonight, then near or over the coast of South Carolina on Saturday.
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Did they duck tape Shep Smith to a tree?
I was camping once and we had 90 mph wind shear. We were in a pavilion with no walls. Huge wind, only broke one tent pole on 6 brand new tents.
We all survived.
We mourn those deaths butthe connection is indirect, not direct.
You had tents pitched in a pavilion?
Those two dead were not a direct cause of the hurricane. ABC hype.
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The media is lying
The media make it sound like most of Florida was hit with 100 mph sustained winds which is a lie. Most “Hardest hit” ares around 50 45 50mph or near there.
The media want to make this a catastrophe to help Hillary especially in Florida which is the key state.
Drudge even said the media and the gov agencies exaggerated the htreawt of category 4 hurricane hitting Florida
Nope, tents were in the field. When we saw the storm coming, we got everyone under the pavilion, for what little protection it offered.
My two sons slept out one night in a tropical storm. It was the last night of the month and they were working toward a year round camping award patch. (One night a month in a tent for a year)
The storm dumped 12 inches of rain, so I made them pitch the tent in our carport because the ground was so saturated it would have damaged my tent.
Great bragging rights.
The media is lying
The media make it sound like most of Florida was hit with 100 mph sustained winds which is a lie. Most “Hardest hit” areas around 45- 50 mph or near there.
The media want to make this a catastrophe to help Hillary especially in Florida which is the key state.
Drudge even said the media and the gov agencies exaggerated the threat of a category 4 hurricane hitting Florida It was nowhere near category 4 as what hit Florida were tropical storm winds and conditions
So two natural causes deaths very indirectly storm-related.
Not caused by the hurricane.
The 2 deaths where from laughing their asses off at the media hurricane hype.
They lie all the time. Unfortunately, not everyone knows that - even FReepers here.
The government-media complex are paid, pathological liars to advance the agenda of the elite.
Imagine how many lives where saved in the cities due to the hurricane. Homicides way down.
So they just lie about it...
Hi Michelle!! Need a tow?
Good one! LOL!
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