I found Monday mornings Seattle paper with the a huge headline and huge photo of the evacuation (traffic jam - but only on one side of the highway!!!). The article was very, very doom and gloom (and turned out fairly accurate - 80% under water, etc.).
I was hanging out on a serious weather junkie's forum, where a number of pro forecasters were arguing about how accurate the NWS was. Turns out, they were very, very accurate. Eye went within 15 miles of their track.