The Book on Matthew

While hundreds of thousands are without power and damage is being done, Hurricane Matthew hasn’t hit Florida as hard as some worried it would. But it’s still a big storm and the danger isn’t past. Here’s the latest from CNN.

+ Some US cities are getting lucky. Haiti never seems to get lucky. And the post-Matthew crisis there is deepening. The Haitian death toll is approaching 500, and many areas are still not reachable.

+ Vox: Why do some people never evacuate for a hurricane? (Maybe we shouldn’t give so much cable news airtime to people who refuse to evacuate during storms. It incentivizes bad decisions.)

+ If nothing else, driving towards a hurricane is a hell of way to avoid traffic.