Well IMO, Severe is the hardest to avoid injury or death from. Even with the April 27, 2011 outbreak being forecast far in advance, it is so often the "meso influences" that determines where the worst will be. Also, again IMO, there is virtually no reason for deaths in the USA as a direct result of Tropical systems in coastal areas. Forecast well in advance, notifications go out, and folks have the opportunity to "get out of the way"..
some decide to stay in areas when they have a considerable amount of time to evacuate, that’s then puts emergency response teams in danger as they come back to those areas as people ignored, I hate how people said Florence was over hyped, but when you quickly corrected them like for example the flooding in coastal areas, they instead just insulted you or stuff like that, ok I’ll stop, this deserves to be in banter as this is a thread for a upcoming threat