it seems like the news overhypes weather events. not saying this isn't important or noteworthy - but i recall hurricane predictions and snow predictions and all sorts of related events that ended up being far less sinister than predicted.
Not going to deny that national news sensationalizes the crap out of stuff. IMO though I have never seen local news do that. **** happens it is a science for a reason. If we hit 23 feet that will be 1.1 feet off of the initial projection of 24.1 made four days ago based purely off of rainfall reports 60+ miles away with no knowledge of how much of it was actually going to make it to the streams and rivers. Pretty damn good imo.