They had a week to move things out. Were the expensive boats just left to let insurance buy them new ones?
Only had a couple days (really only one day - not enough in this instance) at most on this one. A week out, it was pointing somewhere else, forecasted to top out as a weak 3 and make landfall as a Tropical Storm. Two days out it was forecasted to land as a weak 3 over 250 miles from where it made landfall.
We can see them coming but intensity and track forecasting still sucks.