From Cuba to Haiti to Jamaica, residents of the northern Caribbean were preparing to face the season’s most powerful storm as Category 4 Hurricane Matthew was expected to make landfall Monday. Meteorologists warned of “life-threatening” flooding that could follow what is forecast to be as much as 40 inches of rainfall in some areas of Haiti. Here, a look at precautions as the monster storm edged closer.
Families settled into their seats Sunday aboard a Boeing C-17A as they evacuated from the U.S. Navy station at Guantanamo Bay ahead of Hurricane Matthew, in a photo provided by the U.S. Navy. The United States was airlifting some 700 spouses and children to Florida from the base. Prisoners and service personnel would remain.
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A GOES East satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday shows Hurricane Matthew in the Caribbean about 190 miles northeast of the island of Curacao. Matthew drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that has Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba in the path of potentially devastating winds and rain.
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People in Santiago, Cuba, arrived Sunday with their belongings at a shelter prior the arrival of the Hurricane Matthew.
A worker in Kingston, Jamaica, nailed a board to cover a storefront window Saturday as protection against Hurricane Matthew, the strongest Atlantic storm since Felix in 2007.
AP Photo/Collin Reid
Fishermen moved their boats out of the water in Arcahaie, Haiti, on Sunday ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Matthew.
AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery
A worker dismantles a traffic light Sunday in Santiago, Cuba, as the city braced for the Category 4 storm.
