It’s not arrogance and flippancy, it’s a reaction to the completely overblown hysteria on display by the media.
Sure it’s one thing to be prepared but it’s another thing completely to call it “historic” and “devastating” and “apocalyptic”.
It’s the Nanny State on parade. Put out the warnings and shut up. It’s a very minor storm and had been since before it made landfall.
while the media certainly profits off of THE STORM OF THE CENTURY OF THE WEEK, and I share my fellow conservatives' disgust with the learned helplessness and entitlement culture displayed my most of the evacuees, this storm does have the potential to be all those things (“historic” and “devastating” and “apocalyptic”) to those in its path. it's certainly an event, and is far from minor for those of us in the eyewall. at the very least, what's going on here isn't consistent with valuing innocent human life, and the contempt for the region WILL betaken personally by your ideological brethren here.