SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Officials in Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas are weighing possible evacuations as they keep an eye on the weather.

Tropical Storm Hanna is shifting toward a tough-to-predict landfall along the southern Atlantic coast by the end of the week.

Florida Governor Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency as Hanna began a turn to the northwest from the Bahamas. Emergency officials in Georgia and South Carolina have gone into 24-hour alert mode. In Savannah, nervous residents are rushing to buy plywood and generators.

The National Hurricane Center predicts Hanna will most likely come ashore as a hurricane between Friday and Saturday somewhere
between the east coast of Florida and the North Carolina coast. Current forecasts show the storm making landfall near the Georgia-South Carolina border.

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