after two days without power or an internet connection i can confirm this statement has aged well
personally I thought what you thought too (except "nothingburger", whatever the hell that means), and literally nothing happened, no power outage, no internet outage, didn't even storm that bad
I'm further north, near auburn AL, but still, like.... people made a much bigger deal out of it all than necessary. both kia and hyundai shut down their plants in AL/GA, TODAY, when there was literally not even bad weather, like it was barely sprinkling this morning and after that it's been sunny all day, but whatever