It’s not hysteria when a Cat 4 hurricane like Irma is bearing down on you and you are in its path.
You get out of the way.
If you don’t get hit after all, you thank God and go back home and pick up whatever pieces you need to.
It's hysteria when irresponsible MSM news channels are talking nothing but catastrophe and acting as if the entire state of Florida is going to be destroyed, frightening people who are not even in an evacuation zone and therefore not under severe threat to hit the road, causing massive traffic jams, using up all the gasoline and making it very difficult for evacuees from the actual area of apparent landfall to evacuate when the path of the storm changes, as notoriously capricious hurricanes are wont to do.