Mississippi is gonna get hit badly as well. The whoe state is covered by storms in every computer simulation of the hurricane's path.
Even for those who miss the worst of the winds, this thing is going to dump tremendous amounts of rain, isn't it?
Really large area will be impacted.
The entire MS Gulf Coast is technically within that Northeast Quadrant of the storm! It is not that large an area. You can drive from Waveland to the Alabama line along the coast in two hours, and it only takes that long because the traffic on the Beach Road is slower than the Interstate. Actually, it only takes two hours to get to New Orleans from the Alabama line along I-10, and the storm is SO HUGH, hurricane force winds will be felt all along there. My sister, Joanne, and her husband live at our Fish Camp over near Pascagoula, and it got through Camille OK, so they should be fine.