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Trees sway from heavy rain and wind from Hurricane Matthew in front of Exploration Tower Friday, Oct. 7, 2016 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Authorities warned that the
danger was far from over, with hundreds of miles of coastline in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina still under threat of torrential rain and dangerous storm surge as
the most powerful hurricane to menace the Atlantic Seaboard in over a decade pushed north.

                                                                                                                                                                                     (Craig Rubadoux/Florida Today via AP)

Matthew Spares Florida from Catastrophic Blow

BRENDAN           FARRINGTON         tine Mayor Nancy Shaver lament-         West Palm Beach. And the coast          deadly flooding with its surge of
                                     ed as battleship-gray floodwaters       never felt the full force of its 120    seawater.
HOLBROOK MOHR                        coursed through the streets of the      mph winds.                              About 500,000 people were under
                                     451-year-old city founded by the        One U.S. death was reported, that       evacuation orders in the Jack-
Associated Press                     Spanish.                                of a woman whose house was hit          sonville area, along with another
                                     Matthew — the most powerful             by a tree in the Daytona area.          half-million on the Georgia coast.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — Hur-      hurricane to threaten the Atlantic      “It looks like we’ve dodged a bul-      More than 300,000 fled their homes
                                     Seaboard in over a decade — set         let,” said Rep. Patrick Murphy, a       in South Carolina. The latest fore-
ricane Matthew spared Florida’s      off alarm as it closed in on the U.S.,  Democrat whose district includes        cast showed the storm could also
                                     having left more than 300 people        Martin County, just north of West       scrape the North Carolina coast.
most heavily populated stretch       dead in Haiti.                          Palm Beach.                             “If you’re hoping it’s is just going to
                                     In the end, it sideswiped Florida’s     While the hurricane was weaken-         pass far enough offshore that this
from a catastrophic blow Friday      Atlantic coast early Friday, swamp-     ing quickly, several northeastern       isn’t a problem anymore — that is
                                     ing streets, toppling trees onto        Florida cities, including Jackson-      a very, very big mistake that you
but threatened some of the South’s   homes and knocking out power to         ville, were still in harm’s way, along  could make that could cost you
                                     more than 1 million people. But it      with communities farther up the         your life,” National Hurricane Cen-
most historic and picturesque cit-   stayed just far enough offshore to      coast. Authorities warned that not      ter Director Rick Knabb warned.
                                     prevent major damage to cities          only could Matthew easily turn
ies with ruinous flooding and wind   like Miami, Fort Lauderdale and         toward land, it could also cause                    Continued on Page 4

damage as it pushed its way up

the coastline.

Among the cities in the crosshairs

were St. Augustine, Florida; Savan-

nah, Georgia; and Charleston,

South Carolina.

“There are houses that will prob-

ably not ever be the same again

or not even be there,” St. Augus-