Niece just moved to springfield georgia, 27 miles NW of savannah. She says she’s in no danger and doing little. Anyone disagree with her?
Never have been in a hurricane, just tornadoes and blizzards in the North country.
She is well within the forecast cone and the forecast track has been moving westwards for over a day. I would say she is taking a very calculated risk.
She needs to be concerned with power outage due to saturated ground allowing trees to topple in less than hurricane force winds. Localized flooding.
No risk of storm surge there - it’s well inland and averages about 79 feet. As long as she can get by without power, they should have the roads clear where she can get to the store in 3 or 4 days.
That’s pine forest. There will be pine trees blown down as far as you can see. Roads WILL be blocked. It will take a few days to clear all the blow downs.