Running out of Hurricane Names 712
fm6 writes "LiveScience is reporting that the 21 names reserved for tropical storms and hurricanes in Atlantic Basic are almost used up. If there are more than 21 storms, they'll start using the Greek alphabet. The most storms ever recorded was 21 in 1933, before they started giving them official names. The connection between this record-breaking storm year and global warming remains controversial."
Easy solution (Score:5, Funny)
What? (Score:5, Funny)
Bad PR (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't it obvious??? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)
Names... (Score:5, Funny)
These will be a hit with techies...
"That hurricane isn't ready for release."
"Why not?"
"Because it's Beta!"
Thank you, I'm here all week.
RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh Lordy it's snowin, must be global warming!
Oh Lordy a TORNADO! We never had those before global warming!
A WHOLE CITY FLOODED BY A HURRICANE! ACK! That surely couldn't happen without global warming!
For the love, what a bunch of fear-mongering horse shit.
Re:Bad PR (Score:5, Funny)
Hurricane Killer
Hurricane Throat-Ripper
Hurricane Goatse
I mean, who would decide to "just stay here and weather Hurricane Goatse"?
Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)
More descriptive huricane names (Score:5, Funny)
I always wondered why they give them nice polite names.
I think "Hurricane Bastard" or "Hurricane Stalin" would be more appropriate .
Just name them after real scum bags
Re:What? (Score:2, Funny)
so what they are saying is... (Score:3, Funny)
Alpha and Beta Bugs (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Return to the old? (Score:3, Funny)
Re: Greek alphabet? (Score:3, Funny)
> What's the point in using the Greek alphabet, since all the US media is going to use English/Roman letters to report the names?
I suppose they could use numerals: 0liver, 1ouanne, 2ebulun, 3lizabeth, 4arry, 5andy, 6ob, 7erri, 8???, 9ale, 10uis,
Re:Bad PR (Score:4, Funny)
And yes, it would be male. They alternate genders, and the last hurricane on this year's list [about.com] is "Wilma." [nju.edu.cn]
Re: Easy solution (Score:5, Funny)
> Use the Chinese alphabet. If you have a year where you run out, it's all just one big hurricane.
Or FEMA could just stall and clean up two at a time, so we'd only need half as many names.
Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Controversial? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What? (Score:1, Funny)
I already board up my windows and hide my valuables from Shaniqua's and such. I also wear this shirt [tshirthell.com].
Corporate-sponsored hurricanes. (Score:5, Funny)
Just think: Pepsi Presentes Hurricane Melvin. Hurricane Ashlee: A Joint Venture of Wal-Mart, Google, and Dell.
When I becomes president, I tells ya.
Re:controversial? (Score:2, Funny)
as you may not know there is also a correlation about the rising water temperatures, there are less pirates now. please see the reference http://www.venganza.org/ [venganza.org]
may you get touched by the noodle appendage
Onepoint
Let's Use The Other Letters (Score:2, Funny)
From TFA: q, u, x, y and z are not used
I, for one, welcome our new freak hurricanes, QueerAsAThreeDollarBill, Uvula, XenaWarriorPrincess, Yoohoo, and Zipadeedoodah.
Re:Easy solution (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What? (Score:4, Funny)
Re: Greek alphabet? (Score:3, Funny)
We're sorry, the name "Hurricane Sam" is taken. How about "Hurricane TNBabe2348"?
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Easy solution (Score:1, Funny)
Sure we will have a unneeded overhead on most years but it is years like this that if we just sit back and watch it will overflow.
They Need Corporate Sponsored Names (Score:2, Funny)
Just think about it, hurricaine "Bob's Used Exercise Equipment" wouldn't be that big of a deal, but people would be fleeing their asses out of town once hurricaine "RIAA" or hurricaine "Microsoft" was being warned for!
Re:What? (Score:2, Funny)
Darn lazy Y2Hurricane programmers!
Re:Easy solution (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Bad PR (Score:3, Funny)
Hurricane living below sealevel gets you killed
Hurricane living on the beach destroys your house
Hurricane this happens every year so move dumbass
Hurricane there goes another $2000 from every taxpayer.
One or two more of these this year, and the US economy will collapse completely as we repeatedly bail out people too stupid to move.
I tried NAT (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Record set in 1933 (Score:2, Funny)
Hurricane KHANNN!... (Score:3, Funny)
Use scary names (Score:2, Funny)
- Osama
- Saddam
- Adolf
- Lucifer
- Vader
Future News (Score:5, Funny)
Tropical depression #36 has increased in intensity to a tropical storm with maximum sustained windspeeds of 49 miles, and has been named tropical storm Pi. Its eye wall has circularized surprisingly early, and the storm is expected to gain strength as it squares the radial islands of the Florida Keys.
Hurricane Delta continues to change latitude, longitude, pressure, and windspeeds in the west, Atlantic, with d-la=-1.3, d-lo=0.2, d-p=-15 mbar, and d-w=15 mph. This is quite the contrast to last year's hurricane Iota, which refused to change much at all. It is recommended that all residents in the eastern Carribean continue to plot the course of this dangerous storm carefully, as all of this data is subject to change.
Hurricane Beta has been downgraded to tropical storm beta as it decays over the North Atlantic. Beta caused quite a scare after it formed from the reminants of the collision of tropical storm alpha and the eastern antilles, but has passed harmlessly through open water ever since it was spawned.
Tropical storm Lambda continues to redefine itself as it disintigrates now that it has moved inland from the Texas gulf cost. A category 5 hurricane on impact, it left a swath of destruction as a void in its wake. After making landfall, it took a break before continuing for n>3 days across the continental United States. The variable number of refugees that fled in advance of the hurricane are not expected to return any time soon; garbage collection must be done and the environment cleaned up first.
Re:Easy solution (Score:3, Funny)
Pirates (Score:2, Funny)
Re:More descriptive huricane names (Score:3, Funny)
"Hurricane Andrew? Why would you call a hurricane Andrew? Did the hurricane show up in a little cravat and a dickie, smelling of polo, sipping of perrier, going "Scurry, scurry, Andy's here!!!" What do they call tornado? Tornado. You get the message. They don't go,"Tornado Timmy's coming, FLEE!" Why, if they're going to give a hurricane a name, give it one that applies, like Hurricane Jesus-Christ-On-A-Crutch! Followed by the next big one, Hurricane Holy-Fucking-Moses!"
Use Two Names... (Score:5, Funny)
single names for the year. By October we'll get hurricanes like Bubba Earl, Ellie Mae, Joe Bob, etc.
Re:Record set in 1933 (Score:3, Funny)
I hold that Vikings were Pirates, and therefore we're all doomed.
I have lots of names (Score:2, Funny)
They're the names I call the lovely girls in my life.
They swoop in, there's lots of dampness and blowing at first, but when they leave, they take the house.
two words (Score:2, Funny)
Imagine it. A huge fund is started where the winning bid for each hurricane's name is deposited, and this is what we dip into to pick up the pieces afterward!
This way when Citigroup takes your house, it's because it cleaned it off it's foundation into the Gulf of Mexico!
But really, there will be such heavy bidding for the Category Fives so that every talking-head will be saying "remember this relief effort is brought to you by Walmart."
Re:Use Two Names... (Score:2, Funny)
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Outsource to India (Score:3, Funny)
Hurricane Punjab
Hurricane Krishna
Hurricane Patel
etc...
Re:Outsource to India (Score:3, Funny)