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In The New s<br />
By Bailey Rickenbrode<br />
Hurricane Mat t hew<br />
* All information is found at<br />
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-matthew-bahamas-florida-georgia-carolinas-forecast<br />
and Hurricane Matthew economic damage nears $6 billion - USA Today<br />
From September 28 through <strong>October</strong> 9, Hurricane Matthew swept from the<br />
Caribbean all the way into North Carolina. The US knew that this storm was<br />
coming, but we never knew that it was going to be as bad as it was. At first it<br />
looked like it was nothing, but the storm was then labeled a tropical storm when it<br />
was near the Windward Islands (a group of islands in the SE West Indies) on<br />
September 28, 2016. According to the Weather Channel, when it reached the<br />
Caribbean, it was then classified as a hurricane and only got worse from there. It<br />
reached peak intensity of 160 mph winds and was labeled a Category 5 hurricane<br />
and was classified as that from September 30 until <strong>October</strong>. In Florda,on <strong>October</strong><br />
7, a peak surge of water reached 9.88 feet above normal. The storm became<br />
post-tropical whenever it moved away from the U.S. on <strong>October</strong> 9,2016. According<br />
to USA Today, the cost in damage is between $4 billion and $6 billion.<br />
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