I don’t think it’s a matter of “my hurricane was bigger than your hurricane” but that the hyperbole is dangerous.
The reporting needs to be what could happen and what you need to do. Period.
Anyone with 1/2 a brain could see this was not a monster storm when her eyewall collapsed and she started breaking apart before making landfall.
That’s exactly what I said even before it hit land. This storm wasn’t ever going to be what they were in snits over.
I lived on board my yacht for years before Ike. We watched Ike grow and move. I told others in our marina that Ike was coming to buy my boat and that it would hit hard and deadly. Many laughed at me but I have watched hurricanes for years. I knew Ike was going to be huge and hard. The marina I was in was in Seabrook, Tx just off Galveston bay. Nobody laughed after Ike had gone through. I got back there the next morning to see the marina under about 13 feet of water (that’s 13ft above the highest tide). Twelve hours later when the water level had gone down there was virtually nothing left of the marina. My yacht was on the bottom along with a fishing boat I owned. Ninety Eight percent of the boats in that marina were totally destroyed as was most of a large area around Seabrook.