Hurricane Matthew hits Cuba hours after slamming Haiti (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
RT.com
5 Oct, 2016
Hurricane Matthew has reached Cuba just hours after flattening homes and leaving a trail of destruction in Haiti. The eye of the storm slammed the country with sustained winds of around 140 mph (225kph).
The Category 4 hurricane – the most powerful Atlantic tropical storm in almost a decade – reached Cuba’s eastern tip around 8 pm local time Tuesday night.
Three hours later, it was churning around 20 miles (32km) northwest of where it made landfall, moving north at about eight miles per hour (13kph), according to the National Hurricane Center.
Footage posted on Twitter ahead of landfall showed fierce waves in the city of Baracoa.
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