http://www.wpbf.com/nowcast very rough paraphrase
Brevard County power going in and out. 3:09 am
St Augustine New Chief urged and pleaded for people to leave, but now to hunker down. They will evac themselves in about three hours. Most concerning marina and inland waterway, as storm moves closer. Mathew not done yet 3:14
Treasure Coast: Outter eye wall now approaching Brevard Cnty/West Melbourne area, high winds expected. Rain coming in horizontally, sheets, now, 2 to 3 inches already and the same expected in the next few hours. Too dangerous to move. Flooding expected. Barrier Isles are in the midst of it. 3:17
Barefoot Bay 74 gust of wind confirmed by initials?
Palm Beach: Closed off due to extremely high, shops battened down, not much damage, some palms, slightly windy, not as bad as a few hours ago. 3:19
Center, just over Sebastian area, heading toward Cape Canv. Still tracking more than expected, East off the coast. 3:26
Treasure Coast: 150,000 apprx out of power. Supermarkets will open midday.
first flight 1 pm. Waiting to see what conditions on the Space Coast will turn out to be. 3:32
Palm Beach seems okay, reporting from under the Clock Tower, flooding. 3:34
Wobble East, made the difference, turning into a trend, 3:40 ish
power outages expected to go up. esp in St. Lucie area 3:53
Daytona now, getting ready for the worst. 3:54
Matthew Hammers Florida, Begins Dayslong Beating of Coast
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS via BLOOMBERG (MIKE SCHNEIDER and KELLI KENNEDY)
October 7, 2016 — 2:28 AM ED
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"The number of homes and businesses without power jumped by the hour as the storm edged closer to the coast. More than 200,000 were in the dark by early Friday.
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The hurricane was expected to blow ashore — or come dangerously close to doing so — early Friday north of West Palm Beach, and then slowly push north for the next 12 hours along the Interstate 95 corridor, through Cape Canaveral and Jacksonville, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Forecasters said it would then probably hug the coast of Georgia and South Carolina over the weekend before veering out to sea — perhaps even looping back toward Florida in the middle of next week as a tropical storm.
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The last Category 3 storm or higher to hit the U.S. was Wilma in October 2005. It sliced across Florida with 120 mph winds, killing five people and causing an estimated $21 billion in damage.
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Darcy O'Connor, a restaurant owner who lives in a rowhouse in Savannah, Georgia, a historic city of many beautifully maintained homes from the 18th and 19th century, said she and most of her neighbors were sticking around.
O'Connor noted that her home, built in 1883, has weathered hurricanes before: "Half the windows, if you look, still have the original glass. So that tells you something.""
Kennedy reported from Fort Lauderdale. Associated Press reporters Terry Spencer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Jennifer Kay, Freida Frisaro, Curt Anderson in Miami; Marcia Dunn in Cape Canaveral, Florida; Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia; Martha Waggoner in Raleigh, North Carolina; Jeffrey Collins on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina; Jack Jones and Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina; and Bruce Smith in Charleston, South Carolina, contributed to this report.
Hurricane Matthew, now a Category 3 storm, approaches Florida; emergencies declared in three states
By Renae Merle and Mark Berman, Washington Post
October 7 at 2:21 AM
fftobed:. Both my Florida daughters and their families are safe so I can sleep well tonight. I'll be thinking of all those in the path of this horrific storm. Stay safe and remember the best place is an interior room!
