Frankenstorm ! ! !

So DonDiego questions the judgement of those who ignore mandatory evacuation orders, while at the same time calling the dire forecast "hype."

Got self awareness?

hype 1 (hp) Slang
n.
1. Excessive publicity and the ensuing commotion: the hype surrounding the murder trial.
2. Exaggerated or extravagant claims made especially in advertising or promotional material: "It is pure hype, a gigantic PR job" (Saturday Review).
3. An advertising or promotional ploy: "Some restaurant owners in town are cooking up a $75,000 hype to promote New York as 'Restaurant City, U.S.A.'" (New York).
4. Something deliberately misleading; a deception: "[He] says that there isn't any energy crisis at all, that it's all a hype, to maintain outrageous profits for the oil companies" (Joel Oppenheimer).

"Self Awareness is having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions. Self Awareness allows you to understand other people, how they perceive you, your attitude and your responses to them in the moment."

DonDiego has chosen to abandon his own self awareness.
He no longer needs such perception so long as arshaleign [AKA forkush], Chilcoot, and snidely333 are around to inform him of his shortcomings.

[DonDiego can think of nothing which makes him happier than when an LVA thread becomes a discussion about him.]

3 days qithout power in my apt. in lower Manhattan and my house on LI. As for Don Diego's comment about people ignoring evacuation orders, I couldn't agree more. But there is a story of a family on Staten Island who evacuated after the last storm and they were completed robbed, so they decided not to evacuate this storm, and now the dad and daughter are dead and the mom is in the hospital in critical condition. Your stuff can be replaced, you can't.

Other sources also define 'Hype' as

Noun:

1.Extravagant or intensive publicity or promotion.

By that definition...'intensive publicity'...the event was clearly 'Hyped'...Yet not necessarily 'Overhyped'. Indeed, if 'Hype' was defined as Snidely suggests...'Excessive publicity'...there would be no need for the word 'Overhyped'...

The question becomes one of intent. Did DonDiego mean to imply the event was 'Overhyped' or perhaps he feels it was "Hyped' just right?

Definitions abound
And so, I still wonder
Was this 'hyped' about right
Or over-, or under- ?

I've been home as my work is without power since Monday. Many friends and coworkers are without power. Some, on well water, are without water.

I'd say it was hyped about right.

"hypedjustright"...You heard it here first.

Hmm, . . . allow poor old DonDiego to ponder this question.

Hmmm, . . . Hmmm, . . . Hmmm, . . .

Why, yes, . . . that's it exactly. DonDiego did mean the event was hyped just right. Yeah, . . just right; yeah, . . . that's the ticket, . . . the storm was hyped just right.

DonDiego reclaims his self awareness. And DonDiego thanks alanleroy for his perspicacious analysis.

Some folks in the Greater New York Metropolitan area suffered rather dramatically:

"'I had to go to the wine cellar and find a good bottle of wine and drink it before it goes bad,' Murry Stegelmann, 50, a founder of investment-management firm Kilimanjaro Advisors LLC, wrote in an e-mail after he lost power at 6 p.m. on Oct. 29 in Darien, Connecticut.
The bottle he chose, a 2005 Chateau Margaux, was given 98 points by wine critic Robert Parker and is on sale at the Westchester Wine Warehouse for $999.99.
'Outstanding,' Stegelmann said. He started the day with green tea at Starbucks, talking with neighbors about the New York Yankees’ future and moving boats to the parking lot of Darien’s Middlesex Middle School."

Reference: Bloomberg.com