No, they are actually quite intelligent. Now some of them no doubt will go out and hire the likes of an ambulance chaser such as John Edwards to sue the weatherman. You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. If anything, they (the ones who are contemplating lawsuits) should sue themselves for their own obstinacy and stupidity. If you don't know by now that a storm can RAPIDLY increase in intensity...oh, well! -- Here I recall the Blizzard of 1978 in the northeast -- despite "up-to-the-minute" and timid weather forecasts, any FOOL could tell just by looking outdoors, and most certainly anyone who was trying to drive on roads already icing over and dangerous to negotiate, in the first few hours of the storm with visibility near zero, that the atmosphere was already overloading with snow and more snow (a RAPID convergence of several low pressure systems over land and ocean). People instinctively abandoned their vehicles and WALKED to safety!
You've been warned. Now step to it.