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UNISYS Water Vapor of GOES East Satillite (click here for 12 hour loop)
The climate crisis storms of the recent past were really weak when they hit land and diminish in velocity. Matthew did not do that. It literally pulled the water vapor air mass of the east coast North American into it's peripheral winds. Matthew now has a water vapor supply from the ITCZ to the Arctic Circle and plenty of water vapor to regain it's velocity after crossing land.
October 2, 20161630.18z
UNISYS Water Vapor of GOES East Satellite
Governor Haley did the best thing a governor could do in alerting the public of the impending dangers, including the potential to dangerous flooding.
October 5, 2016
By Paul Schemm and Brian Murphy
Emergency teams (click here) in Haiti struggled Wednesday to reach hurricane-ravaged areas cut off by washed-out bridges and mudslides after Hurricane Matthew roared over the nation’s western tip to began a devastating island-hopping path that arcs toward the U.S. coast.
The full extent of Matthew’s blow to Haiti remained unclear with communications almost fully severed to some regions in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation — where tens of thousands of people still living in tents after a powerful earthquake six years ago killed 200,000 people.
At least 11 deaths — including at least four in neighboring Dominican Republic — have been blamed on the hurricane, which packed winds of up 145 mph when it hit Haiti on Tuesday and then moved on toward Cuba and the Bahamas. A weakened Matthew was expected to make landfall in Florida on Thursday.
“What we know is that many, many houses have been damaged,” Haitian Interior Minister François Anick Joseph said. “Some lost rooftops and they’ll have to be replaced while others were totally destroyed.”...
It was only last year when South Carolina received some of the worst flooding in it's history. There is every indication with the diameter of Matthew being so large it will occur again even if the storm doesn't make landfall.
October 3, 2016
By Alexandra Olgin
One year ago, a large part of South Carolina was underwater. (click here) Unprecedented rainfall and breached dams flooded thousands of homes, businesses and roads. After a year of rebuilding, questions remain whether the state has taken enough steps to protect against another disaster....
