think about when you put your hand in a pool to splash somebody. move slowly, a ripple, you get some. when you move your hand fast, that s when you get the biggest splash and that s what will happen as it moved forward, the forward momentum causes a biggest storm surge. the path just offshore from cape hatteras, the outer banks. we could see a wobble in there. we have to keep an eye on it. we don t expect it to make when it gets along parallel to the outer banks to be a category 4 storm but as a 3 it can do catastrophic damage. and then continues up the coast running parallel to the coast, may brush, may make landfall in new england around nantucket. may not. but again, doesn t have to make landfall to cause big problems. school closings in the area between now and friday. school started a few weeks ago down here and some schools have