The thing you are missing is how stupid the average citizen has become since our youth.
The masses are idiots. The police and fire have to appeal to the stupidest common denominator when making a public appeal to get out.
You keep mouthing off about the hype but you’re really not that smart to understand it.
Oh they had dumbasses during Camille. Just ask those holding a hurricane party in the Richelieu apartments. Oops you can’t. But there are always the jackasses that show up on these threads and say it’s all hype. They did that in spades during Sandy. All Sandy did was being the third-most destructive storm in US history. Yeah, over-hypes. Morons.
Treat people like idiots (which the media and government is doing), then they will act like idiots.