[RegulatorCountry]

I saw rainfall totals forecast close to ten inches just east of Charlotte and not far from Raleigh, while the hurricane was still off the coast of Florida. The level of inland damage was somewhat of a surprise, but it was not totally unforeseeable. There is risk with mass evacuations, but the risk was seen as less than remaining in immediate coastal areas and even the more flood-prone, marshy inland locations. We don’t control nature, the forecasts just give an illusion that we actually know what’s going to happen.

[Just mythoughts]

Not sure where you are and when you saw this ‘forecast’. I did see Governor Haley last week, of South Carolina demand the citizens of South Carolina that reside at the coast to 100 miles inland leave. There was NOT one word regarding potential flooding at 100 miles inland. I have watched nothing else but the Weather Channel on the tube since Governor Haley made her declaration. Hurricane Matthew was to take a ‘right turn’ at the north eastern edge of South Carolina.. and head back south.

I am NOT disagreeing with anything except the claim this storm was ‘over-hyped’... and not that big of a deal. What was over-hype was the weather forecasters ability to forecast this storm.