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i've always figured the perfect strike would hit savannah head-on, roll up i-16 to macon, turn slightly and roll up i-75 to atlanta. turn eastward and roll up i-85 through greenville, and onto charlotte, nc. and spread out.

but that event hardly ever happens.

charleston is more likely to be hit.

Have several times. I do indeed have too weak a system.

I welcome a couple of dry weeks (but not at 95º). It rained every weekend but 3 between Halloween and Easter at my house. South Georgia might be drier but the dang rivers and lakes here have been overfull.

As for Savannah getting a hurricane, the Gulf Steam steers them away up toward N. Carolina. Savannah was last hit directly in something like 1840.

it has been a very wet winter, amazingly so. lanier has been dumping water for a spell. nevertheless, the soil is getting drier, and it's moving further north.

we thought savannah was going to take a hit, back several years ago when charleston got the storm. hugo, i believe? it knocked some stuff down in south carolina. it could have just as easily been south georgia if it hadn't veered in the last 10 miles or so.

Hugo put a 20" diameter tulip poplar on my truck
In the mountains of SWVA

i recall that storm was predicted to hit savannah and roll up I-16 but at the last minute veered and struck charleston.

a lot of mature pine timber was destroyed, as well as houses & flooding.

I was fishing out of Biloxi MS a few days ago & it was 78 in my fish finder so it’s not quite that hot here yet.

I’d welcome a drought. I’ve got parts of my place that I haven’t been able to Bush hog for two years because of the almost non stop rain. The ground’s so saturated that it’ll take two months of no rain to dry it halfway out.

we're expecting record high temps at least through next wednesday, maybe more.

we're back into code orange country, air quality wise for several days.

wish they could get those tree emissions under control.