force winds 45 miles away. we need to not just focus on the center. you need to think of this as a wild storm causing damage for a large area. damaging on the coast. power outages could last several weeks. serious situation. catastrophic with building damage, trees down, power outages. but not just the coast. we still expect hurricane force winds stretching on the alabama/georgia state line. even moving into central georgia could still have some winds close to hurricane strength. so if you take the rain and take those winds, you can have power outages and trees down, remaining dangerous through georgia and portions of extreme southeast alabama and into the carolinas. taking a look at that rain, lot of flash flooding. really serious situation. any time you have a tropical systems come in, the rainfall is heavy. 6 to 10 inches of rain on the florida panhandle up into portions of southeast alabama, even into georgia. this area 4 to 6 inches of rain.