It all sounds like a Japanese attempt to forecast earthquakes. They had that brilliant idea that rather than building earthquake-hardened structures and cities, they would develop a perfect system to forecast earthquakes, evacuate people and rebuild if need be.
Well, after decades of world's best and pioneering research into earthquakes, they discovered that many earthquakes occur with minimum or no warning.
Hurricane movement seems to fall into the same category of phenomena - they move quite unpredictably, they could weaken or strengthen in short period of time, while the roads, airports and harbours are incapable of evacuating all the people from harm's way.
The solution is obvious: the infrastructure must be hurricane-hardened and it makes no sense to live in the areas subject to massive surges and flooding.
In words of General Norman Schwartzkopf: The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
