If it gets people thinking about the upcoming season and they then prepare a little earlier, it may not be such a bad thing that so much attention is being paid to this storm.
Hopefully it won't mean much more than some high winds and some rainfall.
Unfortunately, currently it's also blowing the wildfires.
I agree with you that reminding people to prepare is good and that some good will come out of this situation. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive about this situation because we've had 1 - 2 weeks of thunderstorms and the local media makes it sound like armaggedon is occurring:
Announcer:"...we interrupt our normal broadcast of CSI to warn you about the change in weather. John Blabalot is in Arlington with the latest video footage. John, can you hear us?"
John: "It's terrifying...and oh, the carnage...water is actually falling from the sky..."
