Hurrilurker wrote:I don't recall ever seeing so much indifference to a potentially-Cat-4 storm this close to the US coast. Obviously if you're in the target area it's different, but normally it would be 24/7 freak-out coverage at this point (and days before) and I've seen very little of that. Maybe Flo fatigue? I dunno, it's weird, everything seems relatively calm on a national level and I hope that doesn't mean preparations are gotten to too late for residents and disaster response.
I will think it's kind of sneaking up on people. Once it goes offically cat 3 with maybe cat 4 forecast things will start to ramp up.
The structure looked crud about 9hrs ago but it's really improved markedly...worrying it strengthened almost throughout that time...