Hello, My Name is Hurricane Ivan

[Winston]

Why do tropical storms have names anyway? It's not like there can be more than one at any given time and place.

If it's attempting to personify the phenomena, which really makes no sense, they could at least name them after movie villains. Like The Joker, or Goldfinger.

"Hannibal Lechter is roaring towards the Eastern seaboard as we speak, devouring all life and property in his path!"

[chequita guevara]

It helps us keep track of them. It's much easier to remember Hurricane Dora was the last hurricane to hit Jacksonville than to remember Hurricane 4 of the 1964 Atlantic hurricane season.

[Winston]

If it's been 40 years since the last one, I would think the people who were around then would remember anyway. And meteorologists, historians and other professionals should be capable of coping with the precise notification that includes the date and geographical area affected. But there's an element of tradition to it as well, I suppose.

[Robert]

Originally posted by Agathon
How many "once every hundred years" hurricanes in do you need to get in a year for a Republican to admit to climate change?

Climate change is not being denied. It is being denied that humanity has influence on this change.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Winston
But there's an element of tradition to it as well, I suppose.

It's only been done since the 1950s. It just makes it easier to keep track of storms.

[The Mad Monk]

It appears that Frances isn't quite done yet -- flooding and mudslides are now being reported in Georgia and the Carolinas.

[The Mad Monk]

Posted on Tue, Sep. 07, 2004


Four killed when two motorcycles hit tree downed by Frances

Associated Press


DELAND, Fla. - Four people on two motorcycles were killed when they roared along a storm-darkened street and hit a tree that had been knocked across their path by Hurricane Frances.

The deaths were categorized as hurricane-related.

The drivers of the motorcycles were identified as Ryan Cayford, 21, of DeBary, and Matthew Teston, 21, of Orange City. Their passengers were Andrea Wagner, 21, of Deltona, and Rebecca Smith, 20, of DeLand.

Their bodies were found by a carrier for The Daytona Beach News-Journal early Tuesday, entangled in the tree, but investigators weren't sure when they died. Police said the engines of the bikes were cold when police arrived on the scene.

The motorcycles left 147 feet of skid marks before hitting the tree and were believed to be traveling about 70 miles per hour, said Trooper Kim Miller, a spokeswoman for the Florida Highway Patrol.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/9603122.htm

What kind of lunatics ride motorcyles in a hurricane?

[Space05us]

What kind of lunatics ride motorcyles in a hurricane?

dead ones?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
What kind of lunatics ride motorcyles in a hurricane?

It doesn't say what day this occured. There're fallen trees all over the place, even here in Jax.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yep... the tree could have fallen during the Hurricane which could have been a few days ago. All the trees haven't cleared. Hell, in Atlanta, where we got some of the tropical storm (as it was when it hit us), we have trees still down.

[chequita guevara]

This is what, the fourth Cat 4 hurricane or above this season. Not only are there a lot of storms, they're unsually powerful.

[GePap]

Well, Haiti and the DR got lucky, and now Jamaica and Cuba get screwed, and perhaps once again florida....

[chequita guevara]

I wonder if I can apply for aid since it's getting harder to get a job here, what with all the cities getting destroyed.

[Frozzy]

Sure is nasty

[mrmitchell]

It's only been done since the 1950s. It just makes it easier to keep track of storms.

I thought the practice started with a guy in ~1900, who named hurricanes after politicians he didn't like.