"Aw they were wrong! It wasn't big enough!"

Would you cut it out already?

The government, even the media, did what they should have done. Odds and history have shown us what a hurricane along this trajectory can do, even "just" a category one. You can't fine tune a prediction for a hurricane. If it had taken a path just a little further off shore, it would have stayed stronger, longer. So? No one could predict when and where it would do the most damage. And, like most things you try to predict, who would have thought Vermont might come out with some of the worst damage?

It was seen coming.  We were warned. People who might have died and damage that might have been done were spared. People still died. And the "is that all it was?" mentality is dismissing the extenive damage that was done and which will continue to affect many, many people for a long time. If you're whining, you're not trudging through the damage done to your home or business or town. You're not burying your dead. Count your blessings.