There are millions hurting right now and many lost everything they had, including their houses totally burned to the ground or totally destroyed by water. Millions are without power, but eventually that will come back. I hope they all had preps to get through this.
I never said there was no storm.
I said the hyperbole was over the top.
It was.
I never said the storm was anything but a big, serious Category 1, barely, storm.
Just because the storm wasn’t as bad for all the people it was predicted to be bad for (like us, thank God) doesn’t mean the warnings were a failure.
If people weren’t warned and it was worse than expected, which does happen with weather as well, then you’d see the lynch mobs out ready to string up those who *should have known better* and didn’t say anything.
It’s a lose/lose situation for those in the NWS and NHC. If they warn and it doesn’t happen, they’re accused of fear mongering. If they don’t warn and it does happen, they are responsible for the lost of live and property because they didn’t say anything.
Hindsight is always 20/20 and armchair meteorologists have a worse track record than the real ones.