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As Matthew makes landfall, historic Southern cities assess damage
Savannah, Charleston, St. Augustine suffer flooding, wind damage as hurricane rakes coast
Hurricane Matthew Flo Albe
An official vehicle navigates debris as it passes along Highway A1A after it was partial washed away by Hurricane Matthew, on Friday in Flagler Beach, Fla., north of Daytona Beach. Hurricane Matthew spared Florida’s most heavily populated stretch from a catastrophic blow Friday but threatened some of the South’s most historic and picturesque cities with ruinous flooding and wind damage as it pushed its way up the coastline. - photo by Eric Gay
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Hurricane Matthew spared Florida's most heavily populated stretch from a catastrophic blow Friday but threatened some of the South's most historic and picturesque cities with ruinous flooding and wind damage as it pushed its way up the coastline. Among the cities in the crosshairs were St. Augustine, Florida; Savannah, Georgia; and Charleston, South Carolina. "There are houses that will probably not ever be the same again or not even be there," St. Augustine Mayor Nancy Shaver lamented as battleship-gray floodwaters coursed through the streets of the 451-year-old city founded by the Spanish.