You aren't wrong. Charlie seems to be keeping his hardest punch very close to the eyewall. This is good overall, because it reduces the damage zone to a 20 mile wide path. Andrew wasn't so considerate. This is one tightly wrapped storm.
That'll be bad news once he transits Florida and hits the Atlantic on the other side. He'll have more energy to reform and become even more dangerous to the Carolinas and points north.
I think you're could be right. But, speaking for Virginia, we'd just as soon it head on to the east of us...