Hurricane Matthew slammed into South Carolina on Saturday, packing a diminished yet still potent punch after killing almost 900 people in Haiti and causing major flooding and widespread power outages as it skirted Florida and Georgia. Now weakened, the most powerful Atlantic storm since 2007 unleashed torrential rains and damaging winds in Florida before churning slowing north to soak coastal Georgia and the Carolinas. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Matthew passed over Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Saturday afternoon, and warned of potentially life-threatening flooding in Georgia and North Carolina even as the storm slowed as it plowed inland. Power was reported knocked out to more than 2 million households and businesses in the US Southeast, the bulk of those in Florida and South Carolina. North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory urged residents on Saturday evening to stay off roads and sidewalks to avoid "deadly conditions" caused by severe flooding and debris.

Source: India Today October 09, 2016 03:33 UTC