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[quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]It's a huge triumph of science that meteorologists are able to track hurricanes days in advance. There is so much they can tell us now about the nature of hurricanes, their intensity, and their path. In the past, people might only have hours or less warning before getting slammed.
As much as the forecasting abilities have improved, it is still not (and probably never will be) an exact science. They knew the regions of the east coast that would be impacted. They could not give exact locations. As it turned out, our impact was less than further north.

The "trade off" of the improved forecasts is that sometimes an area might be over prepared.

I think that's an easy trade off.

Part of the reasons things went well in this area is that they did go ahead and close everything down. Face it, our traffic is already dreadful. It takes very little for there to be a cascading effect. Were you around the time people were trapped in their cars for 6 hours during a snowstorm?!?! They told people to leave work early, it "didn't look bad" so lots of people didn't leave until 5, and then it was complete chaos. Eventually thousands of people got home to nice warm houses, but it was a complete mess before that, and the whole thing could have been avoided if people had followed instructions and left when the government shut down.
So yes, things in Virginia aren't as bad as they could have been, and it would be one thing to post a message expressing gratitude that you were spared.[b] I think OP's attitude of one big eye roll is a sign of a completely self-absorbed person. As others have pointed out in this thread, the storm didn't spare EVERYONE in the DC metro area, and we all would have been paying the price if our local governments did't take weather events seriously.[/b] By staying home and off the roads, we did our part, and the whims of Sandy did the rest to spare us the brunt of the storm.[/quote]

I think the reason why people such as the OP and others have such a cynical attitude, is that the storm was and still is being overhyped.  Of course there was damage, as one would expect for a level 1 hurricane, but the damage is not over and beyond that of all the other hurricanes that hit the southeast every year, and those storms do not receive this type of coverage.[/quote]

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