There are fears that at least 11 people were killed across the Caribbean (including five in Haiti and 4 in the Dominican Republic) and more houses, schools and churches were damaged after hurricane "Matthew", the worst storm in the Caribbean last 10 years struck Haiti. Category 4 storm crushed towns, farmland, and resorts and forced hundreds of thousands of people to take cover.
The main shock was at the town Zangle, in the western part of Haiti, the US Center for hurricanes. Coastal villages are practically wiped with winds that blew at a speed of about 175 miles per hour (230 kilometers per hour) that raised fears of "catastrophic" damage.
"Haiti is facing the largest humanitarian event witnessed since the earthquake six years ago," said Mourad Wahba, the UN Secretary-General's Deputy Special Representative for Haiti.
The newspaper "The Guardian" says that the reasons of great devastation in Haiti, poor infrastructure, deforestation and poor preparedness for earthquakes and storms.
Footage posted by former Haitian PM @LaurentLamothe shows Hurricane #Matthew as it hits Les Cayes https://t.co/yyassoMR38
— Sky News (@SkyNews) 04. октобар 2016.
The storm will, as expected, later proceed to Cuba and then to the United States where it is still unclear how much of the force will have. The Haitian port town Les Cayes, named for the sandy islands off its shore and twice destroyed by hurricanes in the 18th century, was hit hard by Matthew.
"The situation in Les Cayes is catastrophic, the city is flooded, you have trees lying in different places and you can barely move around, the wind has damaged many houses," said Deputy Mayor Marie Claudette Regis Delerme, who fled a house in the town of about 70,000 when the wind ripped the roof off.
Early reports suggested that Cuba had not been hit as hard as Haiti. In the city of Guantanamo, streets emptied as people moved to shelters or inside their homes. Matthew is likely to remain a powerful hurricane through at least Thursday night as it sweeps through the Bahamas towards Florida and the Atlantic coast of the southern United States, the NHC said.
Meteorologist En-bi-sion was Karins said, however, that the path of hurricanes is similar to Hurricane Floyd in 1999 when 2.6 million people from five US states were evacuated. The authorities of the US state of South Carolina began the evacuation of more than half a million people from the hurricane "Matthew" that was previously killed 11 people.
Hurricane Matthew triggers evacuation in South Carolina as east coast braces for worst https://t.co/o2iOjiaLpD — Guardian US (@GuardianUS) 04. октобар 2016.South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said today that it has declared a state of emergency, reports AFP.They will start evacuating 1.1 million people from its coast starting on Wednesday and try to get them at least 100 miles inland. Georgia declared a state of emergency in 13 counties.
It is expected that the hurricane hit the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, with wind speed will reach up to 100 miles per hour (160 kilometers per hour).
