If it had hit Georgia, as hurricanes have done in the past, it could have also went right into Alabama at tropical storm strength, as hurricanes have done in the past. Your ignorance of history is amusing.
INDIVIDUAL 1: DORIAN ALMOST GOT ALABAMA. METEOROLOGISTS: NOPE. ABSOLUTELY NOT. INDIVIDUAL 1: YEAH IT DID, LOOK AT THE SHARPIE. INDIVIDUAL 1: I'M AN OVERGROWN CHILD FULL OF FEAR AND INSECURITY.