[PAR35]

Not familiar with the GA coast

Jacksonville to Savannah rarely take a direct hit because of the way the coast curves in. Someone may correct me, but the last hurricane I recall hitting Jacksonville came across from the Gulf. Same thing for the ones I remember going up through Georgia.

[thesearethetimes...]

You are correct FRiend, that coastal Georgia rarely is impacted, however, last year, Matthew smacked Brunswick and St. Simons Island soundly. Power was out for two weeks for some, and St. Simons was effectively closed to homeowners for days after the storm, due to countless downed BIG oaks 😔 We are praying for all in the path, but really hoping not to receive another visit 😒 Tatt

[caww]

If Irma goes up the east coast the concave is right there on Florida, Georgia and S. Carolina meet zone....storm surges will be intense if that happens.

[RegulatorCountry]

Georgia doesn’t have a lengthy coastline, either, which I would think reduce the overall odds of getting hit on top of being sort of fortuitously tucked away as they are.

NC gets hit frequently because it projects way out into the Atlantic, as well as the way the Gulf Stream comes up so close to shore leading to Cape Hatteras, where it veers out to sea.

All of these places have been molded and even formed by hurricanes and tropical storms. It’s not just some crazy unheard of thing attributable to climate change, it’s been happening throughout recorded history. Recent population growth and construction make it far more problematic than it would have been even 20 years ago, though.

I think of my family’s old beach place on Oak Island, NC that was wiped out, there were very few grand houses there, most were more like fishing shacks precisely because they knew what could happen, Hazel was a fairly recent memory. That was the bad one for NC. I still remember multistory retail buildings in beach towns with the high water marks from storm surge, some well into the second story.