'All tore up': Matthew leaves big mess in Georgia

Evacuees being told to stay away for now

A woman who identified herself as Valerie walks along flooded President Street after leaving her homeless camp after Hurricane Matthew caused flooding Saturday in Savannah.Matthew plowed north along the Atlantic coast, flooding towns and gouging out roads in its path. - photo by Associated Press

W Matthew state — A woman who identified herself as Valerie walks along flooded President Street after leaving her homeless camp after Hurricane Matthew caused flooding Saturday in Savannah.Matthew plowed north along the Atlantic coast, flooding towns and gouging out roads in its path. - photo by Associated Press

TYBEE ISLAND — Hurricane Matthew left a pattern of destruction in Georgia that was sometimes hard to fathom, with beachfront condos weathering the storm without a broken window while falling trees killed three people as far as 70 miles from the coast.Overall the storm failed to deliver the devastation local officials had feared as it raked Georgia's 100-mile coastline overnight Friday before passing Saturday morning. But it left plenty of misery in its wake.Savannah-Chatham County police said a man was killed after a tree fell crashing into his house. In Bulloch County, 70 miles inland, Deputy Coroner Richard Pylant confirmed a 68-year old man who was at home alone died after two falling trees sent his ceiling collapsing on top of him.

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