Does this make hurricane prediction more or less confusing?

As I consider a Gulf Coast late summer vacation and with hurricane season less than two weeks away, I think hurricane forecasters just made things more confusing (From CNN.com):

The National Hurricane Center is no longer including storm surges and flooding in its hurricane categories out of concern that people aren't heeding proper warnings, because the surges haven't always matched the levels predicted in each category.

Officials are worried that Texans did not heed storm surge warnings for Hurricane Ike last year.

When Hurricane Ike slammed into the Texas coast last year with Category 2 winds (96-110 mph), it had a storm surge of 15 to 20 feet. That's a level more in line with the scale's description of a Category 5 storm, which has winds greater than 155 mph. A Category 2 hurricane, the Saffir-Simpson scale said, was likely to bring a storm surge of only 6 to 8 feet.

Ike was the third most destructive storm ever to make landfall in the United States. It was responsible for at least nine deaths, eight of which were in Texas.

According to CNN's Sean Morris, forecasters and emergency management officials feared that many residents of South Texas did not heed the warning of an anticipated severe storm surge because Ike was listed as only a Category 2 storm. Storm surge and flooding, not winds, almost always cause more deaths in a hurricane or tropical cyclone, he said.

But, in my slightly educated opinion, people are likely to pay more attention to the Category than they are to the secondary storm surge information.  Which sounds worse: "Here comes a Category 2 hurricane with a possible 15 foot storm surge", or "Here comes a Category 4 hurricane with a possible 8 foot storm surge."  Quite possibly, the first storm would cause more damage, but I would venture that human nature leads people to pay more cautious attention to the menacing sounding Category 4.  Then again, I could be wrong.