Quoted from dung:Agree. Media loves to hype things, but sometimes that is not a bad thing. Their predictive models have gotten better over the years, but it is still a huge gamble as to what will happen. Hurricanes do not need to hit directly to cause massive damage *cough* Katrina *cough*.
Katrina did all of it's damage because the city of New Orleans is below sea level. Don't get me started on how little common sense is involved in building a major metropolitan level at BELOW the level of ocean.