Don't get me wrong, if the storm track remains unchanged then everyone from Savannah north through southern Virginia needs to take heed and seriously prepare. Granted that's if the storm remains a category 3 or 4 by the time it makes landfall.
Less than 1000 miles from the tip of Florida 800+ lives have been taken from Hurricane Matthew... I understand the poking fun at the news reporters and I have been guilty of such tomfoolery myself, but there is always a but isn't there... Mother Nature is DAMN DANGEROUS folks. The projections by these prognosticators kept explaining that they could not tell the exact path of said storm... Bottom line is Hurricanes go where ever they want to go. The warning was given of the possibilities... Was some drama thrown in for effect? Yes there was... As a hilljack living in the Midwest and a consumer of mass media, I can watch or I can turn it off...
Hypothetically lets say the path of the storm had been 50 miles west of the actual path it took in Southern Florida... Would we have been poking fun at the reporters then? Hard to say as it is hypothetical... Florida was extremely lucky. Hundreds of lives and gazillion of dollars have been spared...
I have just a little experience with a Hurricane and I remember watching pre-Hurricane hype on the TV. I was 35 miles NE of landfall of Katrina, eleven years ago. My father, a snowbird lived in Saucier, Ms. and was in very poor health and I was there trying to take care of him... Interesting pickle to be in as I had no where to take my Dad to as he was bedridden and on oxygen... Storm lasted about 12 hours and a day and a half later my father and I was headed to Indiana... Just another Bucket list scratch off...
Pray for the victims of Hurricane Matthew...