Several blocks of Magnolia Avenue are littered with oak branches in downtown St. Augustine.
Oct. 07, 2016Updated 7 p.m.
Hurricane Matthew’s howling wind and driving rain pummeled Florida’s coastline and has proven to be a ruinous, days-long event. The northeast coast is feeling the brunt of the storm’s destructive lashings. Sea surges were forecast to reach between 7 and 11 feet and the city was under a flood warning as rainwater poured into St. John's River in the afternoon. More than 1 million utility customers were without power. More than 22,000 people rode out the storm in 147 shelters in 33 counties.
The photo narrative here is within the collection of images documented by our photojournalists. They represent the most compelling look at what is unfolding before their own eyes.
— Boyzell Hosey, Director of Photography and Multimedia
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St. Augustine
Douglas R. Clifford | Times
A Jeep navigates flooded State Road 206, which connects Crescent Beach to the mainland south of St. Augustine.
Douglas R. Clifford | Times
A boat named Karma lies beached on another part of the road.
Douglas R. Clifford | Times
A car is stuck on a flooded street in downtown St. Augustine.
Titusville
Will Vragovic | Times
Brian Farmer, 32, left, and Jason R. Procell Sr., 47, take photos from a balcony overlooking the courtyard in the Bay Towers apartments in Titusville.
Will Vragovic | Times
Chris Kuntz reads a newspaper as her husband, Steven looks on while they wait out Hurricane Matthew at the Hampton Inn in Titusville.
Daytona Beach
Will Vragovic | Times
People line up to check into a shelter at Mainland High School ahead of Hurricane Matthew in Daytona Beach.
Will Vragovic | Times
Miroslava Roznovjakova, 30, of the Czech Republic, stacks sandbags in front of her family’s store, Fantasy Beachwear, ahead of Hurricane Matthew in Daytona Beach.
Cocoa Beach
Douglas R. Clifford | Times
Exhausted and battered, a pigeon takes shelter at the Cocoa Beach Pier on Friday after hurricane Matthew passed to the east.
Treasure Island
Scott Keeler | Times
Beach visitors watch the surf kick up on Sunset Beach in Treasure Island early Friday.
Tampa
Chris Urso | Times
Traffic is seen along the westbound side of Interstate 4 in the Champions Gate area Thursday.
Fort Pierce
Douglas R. Clifford | Times
People wait outside an ice vending machine Thursday as Hurricane Matthew approaches Florida’s east coast. Some of them waited for up to 30 minutes for the machine to make new batches of ice after it ran out.
Douglas R. Clifford | Times
Jimmie Booth, 80, takes a pair of flashlights from her granddaughter, Kia Frederick, 35, moments before leaving her family home in the Douglas Court neighborhood of Fort Pierce.
Douglas R. Clifford | Times
Family members Briana Jeunice, 7, Vernea Jones, 30, Greg Jones III, 18 months, Greg Jones Sr., 36, and Zahava Alexander, 7, settle into the Red Cross shelter at the Samuel S. Gaines Academy building in Fort Pierce.
Douglas R. Clifford | Times
Ivonne Morales comforts her sleeping baby, 9-month-old Bruno Ponce, at the Samuel S. Gaines Academy building in Fort Pierce.
