[Graywolves]

Originally Posted by Firefly

I understand that. Like I intimated in my original post, just as Californians got all lulzy about the 5.9 shallow quake that rattled the east coast from SC to Vermont... so too do hurricane "veterans" (for lack of a better term) view this hurricane as something of a weak joke. I'd expect the same thing from my Yankee friends if we had a Nor'easter. Y'all would likely be like "suck it up and drive on". I'm not, additionally, saying that nobody should prepare. I sure as hell did, until I realised that this thing was being overly hyped by a media that should have known better. And I certainly do not advocate pulling a Rambo stunt like two of the Irene fatalities, one of whom was a farmer who went out to feed his animals and the other was a surfer who decided to catch some waves.

Agreed.