(CNN)Hurricane Matthew has left hundreds of thousands of people without power in Florida as the Category 3 storm skirts the state’s east coast, but its most damaging blow to the southeastern US could be still to come.
The storm — centered just off the northeast Florida coast Friday afternoon — threatened to push dangerous storm surges into Jacksonville with or without landfall and eventually communities along coastal Georgia and South Carolina.
Although projections showed the storm still could go out to sea without landfall, its center very well could cross land with devastating effect, if not in Florida, then in Georgia or the Carolinas.
