Just don't get too complacent with that! I can't speak to winter storms, but when Hurricane Ida came to NOLA in 2021, I felt the same way. It was forecast to hit us as a rapidly weakening Cat 1, but everyone was losing their minds. Again. Some of my friends actually evacuated. I thought they were nuts. Then it went through rapid intensification after it was too late to evacuate, and we went through the scariest night of my life when it roared in at the border between Cat 4 and Cat 5. And then 10 days of hell after it knocked out power to the entire city when the main transmission tower fell in the river.
I should have learned my lesson after Katrina. But I didn't. Now, if there's a hurricane headed this way, I'll be the first one in that evacuation line lol.
Stay safe!