Take on the National weather alert

A buddy mentioned earlier today that Ida really seemed to have snuck up on us. His point is that when Henri was coming, it was a week of pre-storm panic but this thing came and nobody thought it would be more than heavy rain. What bothers me most is that although we got a bunch of alerts when the storm was at its peak of flooding in our area, we've gotten those many times before and they are always basically false alarms. Sometimes there is water but it's never impassable. This time there were rivers running down our streets

The National Weather System needs a higher alert because basically this was a boy who cried wolf scenario.