Reply #62: As someone who grew up & lived with Hurricanes for 45 years on the Gulf Coast, [View All]

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you ARE correct that this storm was Over-Hyped.
There IS a difference between "Being Prepared", and "Running for YOUR LIFE"!
The 24 hr cable "news" services have to do something, ANYTHING to whip their viewers into a frenzy.

On Friday, I told my wife,
those poor people on the East Coast are going to be spending $MILLIONS
to avoid something they experience almost every year anyway...a bad storm.
The Atlantic Seaboard is known for Bad Storms.
This was just another one,
or, as it turned out, even less so.

This storm was already visibly falling apart on radar as it traveled north.