Interesting perspective, but it definitely was not real at some point. That's the problem with forecasting the future you just don't know. If this storm doesn't happen as a blockbuster, then it was never going to happen that way. It's not like the models decided to change something it's the fact that they didn't know something or thought they knew something and were in error., it just wasn't meant to happen that way. It's like making assumptions in life a lot of times you get burned. Same thing with the weather computers. Lots of what they compute up to a point is based on assumptions