[butlerweave]

The one doing the weather on BBC couldn’t just say Flooding she had to say Catastrophic Flooding D’oh

[ClearBlueSky]

How far inland might these Homeric rains spread? The Appalachians, Atlanta, Missouri? Are all these places expected to evacuate? How far can people run from weather? Perhaps it would be better, and cheaper, to simply evacuate EVERYONE within, say, 50 miles of Eastern and Gulf coasts during hurricane season?
They hype these things so much, and so early, that people get Disaster Fatigue and stop listening. You can only live on 'ready one' for so long.