Hurricane Matthewmade landfall in Haiti this morning , becoming the first class 4 hurricane to strike the impoverished island nation dead - on in over fifty years .

agree to theNational Hurricane Center , the “ spirit threaten ” storm made landfall around 7 am EDT on Tuesday , near Les Anglais in westerly Haiti . By that time , part of the country had likely already experiencedupwards of 20 column inch of rain . More deluge today will increase the peril of flash floods , mudslide , and upsurge of 7 to 10 foot .

HurricaneMatthewmade landfall near Les Anglais , Haiti @ 7 am EDT . First Cat 4 landfall in Haiti since Cleo in 1964pic.twitter.com/tVPXW6ULCy

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

— NWS Eastern Region ( @NWSEastern)October 4 , 2016

Haiti , the poorest commonwealth in the Western Hemisphere , is about the bad potential place a storm like this could have hit . The nation has well-nigh no authorities . around 50,000 Haitians live outdoors in jury-rigged shelter , having lost their family in the devastating 2010 earthquake . Deforestation has left most of the nation stripped of trees and extremely prone to landslide . pillow slip of cholera have been on the riselately , and floodwaters are likely to help the disease disperse .

In 2008 , a spate of tropical storms and hurricanes — Fay , Gustav , Hanna , and Ike — hit Haiti one after another . All secern , the storm destroyed tens of thousands of dwelling and affected nearly 800,000 Haitians . If history is any guide , things are going to get atrocious out there .

William Duplessie