Hurricane of doom: Skull-shaped tropical storm Matthew kills 11 in the Caribbean and bears down on the South East as millions evacuate or batten down the hatches before devastating ‘direct hit’
Deadly Hurricane Matthew, which has already killed 11 people in the Caribbean, has sparked evacuations across South Carolina and along Florida’s barrier islands
Storm made landfall in Haiti Tuesday when 145mph winds and heavy rains battered the island
A United Nations official said storm caused biggest humanitarian crisis in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake
Eerie satellite images of Matthew over Haiti show the storm forming a grinning skull with glowing red eye
Forecasters warn the storm winds and heavy rain could hit Florida by Thursday and move up the East Coast
Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for the state as he warned that Matthew could be as big as 1992’s Hurricane Andrew
Hurricane wind speeds dropped overnight to 115mph making it a Category 3. At its height it was Category 5
A Hurricane Watch and a Tropical Storm Watch is now in effect for many parts of the southern state
Anxious Florida residents have been stocking up to prepare for the storm buying supplies and gas
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has issued an evacuation order for two counties; Charleston and Beaufort
Hundreds of military family members were evacuated from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and a travel warning has been issued for travelers in the Bahamas
Matthew’s high winds and rain fall caused landslides, flooding, and the destruction of homes and businesses across Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba who were starting rebuilding efforts today
By Hannah Parry and Regina F. Graham
DailyMail.com
5 October 2016
People along the East Coast are flocking to hardware stores, grocery aisles and gas stations as the eerily skull-shaped Hurricane Matthew marched toward Florida, threatening to become the first hurricane to hit the state’s Atlantic coast in over a decade.
The ‘skull of Matthew’ first appeared in satellite images of the storm during a weather forecast yesterday – to the shock of many viewers.
The creepy picture, which appears to show a white grinning skull with a glowing red eye, taken from a NASA satellite on Tuesday morning, shows the hurricane as it made landfall in Haiti. The eye, which is flecked with green at its very center, represents the real eye of the storm as it battered the beach resort of Les Cayes.
Many people online have taken the ominous image as a bad omen as the deadly storm moves towards to U.S.
At least 11 people in the Caribbean have already died due to the storm including four in the Dominican Republic, and five in Haiti which were both pummeled by the hurricane yesterday. One person died in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and one in Colombia earlier this week.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday said the U.S. government has teams and supplies positioned to respond to Hurricane Matthew.
‘I want to emphasize to the public – this is a serious storm,’ Obama said after a briefing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ‘It has been building strength on its way to Florida.’
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