A weakening Hurricane Matthew continued its march along the Atlantic coast early Saturday, lashing two of the South’s most historic cities, flooding towns and gouging out roads. Matthew brought heavy rain and some of the highest tides on record along the South Carolina coast. More than 150,000 electric customers in South Carolina were without power, and 250,000 were in the dark in coastal Georgia. From there, it scraped the Georgia coast, including the resort islands of St. Simons and Tybee. About 500,000 people were under evacuation orders in the Jacksonville area, along with another half-million on the Georgia coast.

Source: Indian Express October 08, 2016 13:30 UTC