

Hurricane Matthew - Winds and rain lash Haiti and the US
James Paul Wallis reports on how teams responded to the devastation caused by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti and the US Hurricane Matthew first made landfall over Haiti on 4 October, before hitting Cuba, the Bahamas and the US. It’s estimated to have caused damages of over US$10.5 billion, making it the costliest storm since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and killed as many as 1,600 people, making it the deadliest since Hurricane Stan in 2005. Fatalities were reported in Columbia, the