Yeah, the MSM hypes things. But the NHC has to factor in the worst case scenario in their forecasts. They don't call it the cone of uncertainty for nothing.
I do get it, I’m just not nearly so vested as some appear to be in catastrophizing every hurricane that comes down the pike. To me, that’s crying wolf and it’s also playing into the hands of the climate change alarmists who are seeking to politicize every single weather event as well as the hysterics of the MSM seeking higher ratings. There were people fleeing out of fear who were not even in any sort of evacuation zone, I ran into several way up here in NC near the VA border, from the Space Coast. That’s a bizarre waste of time and money on their part but it was motivated by panic, a deliberate panic. That is not good, and you will never get me to say that it is. People are going to stop taking evacuation orders seriously, too, because something is just wrong with the windspeed projections. This is not the first time this has happened.