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Matt Drudge Idiotically Suggests Hurricane Matthew Warnings Are Government Conspiracy
As weather experts and emergency-management officials plead with those in the path of Hurricane Matthew to evacuate before it hits Florida, warning of “potentially diastrous impact” including massive storm surges, not only are idiots like Vanilla Ice refusing to listen, but others are encouraging them, with sentient fedora Matt Drudge even suggesting a government conspiracy:
MATT DRUDGE ✔ @DRUDGE
The deplorables are starting to wonder if govt has been lying to them about Hurricane Matthew intensity to make exaggerated point on climate
1:01 PM - 6 Oct 2016
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MATT DRUDGE ✔ @DRUDGE
Hurricane Center has monopoly on data. No way of verifying claims. Nassau ground observations DID NOT match statements! 165mph gusts? WHERE?
1:37 PM - 6 Oct 2016
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The National Hurricane Center has listed Matthew’s maximum sustained wind speed at 140 mph so far, enough to cause catastrophic damage, if not to destroy Nassau from 25 miles away:
Some 136 people were killed in Haiti, local officials said, and thousands were displaced after the storm flattened homes, uprooted trees and inundated neighborhoods earlier in the week. Four people were killed in the Dominican Republic, which neighbors Haiti.
As the storm passed about 25 miles (40 km) from the Bahamas capital of Nassau, howling gusts of wind brought down palms and other trees and flipped shingles off the rooftops of many houses. Bahamas Power and Light disconnected much of Nassau as Matthew bore down on the town.
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/matt-drudge-idiotically-suggests-hurricane-matthew-warn-1787503467MATT DRUDGE ✔ @DRUDGE
The deplorables are starting to wonder if govt has been lying to them about Hurricane Matthew intensity to make exaggerated point on climate
1:01 PM - 6 Oct 2016
517 517 Retweets 715 715 likes
MATT DRUDGE ✔ @DRUDGE
Hurricane Center has monopoly on data. No way of verifying claims. Nassau ground observations DID NOT match statements! 165mph gusts? WHERE?
1:37 PM - 6 Oct 2016
210 210 Retweets 258 258 likes
The National Hurricane Center has listed Matthew’s maximum sustained wind speed at 140 mph so far, enough to cause catastrophic damage, if not to destroy Nassau from 25 miles away:
Some 136 people were killed in Haiti, local officials said, and thousands were displaced after the storm flattened homes, uprooted trees and inundated neighborhoods earlier in the week. Four people were killed in the Dominican Republic, which neighbors Haiti.
As the storm passed about 25 miles (40 km) from the Bahamas capital of Nassau, howling gusts of wind brought down palms and other trees and flipped shingles off the rooftops of many houses. Bahamas Power and Light disconnected much of Nassau as Matthew bore down on the town.
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we'll wait for your report
Doesn't he work from his south FL home?
I hope he's 2 feet above sea level. 
