Hurricane Matthew is a Category 4 major hurricane that is expected to hit the east coast of the U.S.:
With the Category 4 hurricane expected to brush up to the US East Coast later this week after its deadly assault on the Caribbean, state officials warned residents and visitors to start preparing for some miserable times. Up to 1 million people could face evacuation in South Carolina. Matthew is an "extremely dangerous" storm, Florida Gov. Rick Scott said, one that made landfall in western Haiti on Tuesday morning. It then headed over eastern Cuba with winds of 140 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center, before losing some of its force. The Bahamas are next. The forecast is that Matthew will ride along the US coast from Florida through the North Carolina Outer Banks from Thursday evening through Saturday. It could make landfall at any point and all areas should be on guard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @09:13PM
But almost every place has weather risk:
North: massive snow & hail storms
Middle: tornadoes
West: earthquakes, tsunami's, jerk tech ceo's
Everywhere: flooding
(Score: 1) by evil_aaronm on Thursday October 06 2016, @04:47PM
"North: massive snow & hail storms." It's not a guaranteed thing. I live in western NY, in the snow belt, and some years it's almost nothing - 2 years ago was really light - and others, you can't finish shoveling before it starts again. Hail storms are a rarity. Given that, I'm content to live here and visit elsewhere, as desired. The major yearly disasters almost never happen to us. Oh, and no killer bugs/snakes/crocs/etc.