Local residents breathed easier after Idalia, a Category 4 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico just prior to landfall, sailed past with the eye of the storm almost directly over the Tattnall-Evans County line on Wednesday, August 30, 2023, around 11 a.m. The fast-moving storm came ashore in the Big Bend area of Florida as a Category 3 storm, and the projected track took it about 40 miles due east of Savannah as it moved up toward the South Carolina coastline.