Hurricane Matthew updates from SNPA members

SNPA will post updates from (or about) SNPA members in the path of Hurricane Matthew at this link.

Please share your news with us, by sending updates to cindy@snpa.org.

Posted Saturday morning by The Island Packet (Hilton Head, S.C.):
Reporters Caitlin Turner, Erin Heffernan and Rebecca Lurye were just some of the newsroom staff that spent Friday embedded with area first responders. As Hurricane Matthew ravaged Florida and headed north, here's a look at how our emergency personnel prepared for the unknown. READ MORE

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Posted Friday morning by the Daytona Beach News-Journal:

Matthew shifted eastward overnight, slightly easing the dire forecast for Volusia and Flagler counties. More than 145,000 homes and businesses in Volusia and Flagler counties are without electricity. READ MORE

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Posted Friday morning by The Augustine Record:

Deteriorating weather conditions have prevented delivery of Friday's St. Augustine Record print edition.

The e-edition of the Record is available AT THIS LINK. Staugustine.com users are being redirected temporarily to sister site Jacksonville.com because technical difficulties and heavy demand have caused outages and performance problems on Staugustine.com.

Staugustine.com and St. Augustine Record content will be displayed in a designated position on the Jacksonville.com homepage, located below the Jacksonville.com and Florida Times-Union content about Hurricane Matthew with updates posted from the Record staff.

Here is a direct link to the Staugustine.com section on Jacksonville.com.

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Posted Friday morning by The News (Brunswick, Ga.):

A new storm surge map from the National Weather Service shows the most recent predictions after Hurricane Matthew shifted slightly to the east. Previous maps had much of Brunswick, St. Simons, Sea and Jekyll islands under deeper water. READ MORE

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Posted by SNPA - advice from someone who has seen Gulf Coast storms first-hand:

Read this column from Jane Nicholes