Life threatening???

I was reading this statement from the NWS:

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA

540 PM EST SAT JAN 22 2005



.A POWERFUL WINTER STORM WILL TURN FEROCIOUS

TOMORROW MORNING BRINGING WELL IN EXCESS OF

A FOOT OF SNOW TO ALL OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND...

PROBABLY A TOP TEN SNOWSTORM IN THE HISTORIC

ANNALS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS OR SO.



THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO CREATE BLIZZARD

CONDITIONS FROM THE INTERSTATE 495 CORRIDOR

AND THE MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE TO THE SOUTH

COASTS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND.



THIS IS A POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING

SITUATION FOR THOSE WHO VENTURE OUT DURING

THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM TONIGHT AND SUNDAY.

TRAVEL IS NOT RECOMMENDED UNTIL LATE SUNDAY.