Grew up near Morehead City, NC....right where the coast runs east-west. Saw a few hurricanes there. Ancestors there since about 1720. My Dad saw the 1933 storm and Hazel in 1954. I remember seeing sea shells in an area in the dunes of what is now Emerald Isle, NC where Dad said the ocean met the sound during Hazel.
Looks like the NC coast and the turn of the Gulf Stream is going to spare Norfolk (where I live) again. Even so, I did my storm shopping....bought liquor and ammo.