This “worst hurricane” theme developed out of the rather limited observation that no major hurricane had made landfall north of Melbourne since 1898. Otherwise there is no comparison with Andrew in 1992 or Katrina, Hugo, and a number of other recent storms.
That being said, nobody north of about Vero Beach now should take this lightly. There was some information going out recently that it had shifted east away from the coast. That was actually some model tracks. The actual hurricane perversely is tracking towards the coast. You can see it on radar quite clearly, the eye is making a steady move towards Cocoa Beach where the landfall seems likely to come around 0700-0800 EDT.
From there I think it will move inland past Cape Canaveral and run up the coast from Daytona Beach to at least mid-Georgia if not Charleston SC.
The bottom line is this, storm surge will be a potential killer in some places, it is confirmed that the predicted storm surge is already building (fire chief in Satellite Beach says 8 feet already, prediction there was 11-13 feet and that seems realistic because peak will not come until maybe 0400-0600h).
From Palm Beach south, the storm basically went past you already, it will be tropical storm force now to mid-morning but nothing too severe.
But from about Vero Beach north, this is going to be a high impact storm. Don’t let your guard down, if you stayed for the show.
You are going to have to move your zone of doom northward now. Vero beach passed peak. NW44G70 now. No hurricane there and won't be.