[SE Mom]

Huh. Just checked the graphic on Drudge...several now bringing it closer to the coast.

These steering influences are interesting. But I still don’t know whether to buy extra chocolate;)

[NautiNurse]

I'll mention the creepy similarity, with caveat that no two storms are alike (except for Frances and Jeanne in 2004):

Hurricane Hazel October 1954

[Guenevere]

I’m not far from Cocoa Beach.......
......We had a hurricane stall off our coast in ‘79
only a Cat 1

I truly wished we had evacuated when the power of this off shore Cat 1 hit.
It spawned tornadoes, high winds, broken power lines, torn roofs, etc

[alancarp]

Here is Joe Bastardi's forecast this morning - his is left (west) of the NHC's official track, which is biased to the (flawed) GFS model.

This is a little hard to read, but it looks like Joe thinks the eye will stay about 120-150 miles off-shore until Saturday/Sunday... and then all bets are off from there... as a Cat 4 storm sits in the Gulf Stream and beats the snot out of the Carolina barrier islands.