It is time for better names for Hurricanes

[Zuni]

Ivan is a step in the right direction.

If I lived in Florida during the hurricane season, I would rather have a vicious sounding hurricane tear apart my trailer park. Frances sounds a little prissy.

I call on the National Weather Service to start naming Hurricanes appropriately. A name like Vlad, Lucifer, Adolf or Zeus is more appropriate for a catastrophic storm than Frances, Agnes or Mitch. Using the names of tyrants like Stalin, mythical gods like Aries, Mafia Kingpins like Gotti, serial killers like Dahmer or even names like Osama, Dillinger or Mike Tyson are bound to strike a more appropriate chord.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

1. Nothing keeps people from panicing and safely evacuating than Hurricane

Hitler

:eyes:

[Zuni]

3. just German names in general, actually

Hurricane Heinrich, Hurricane Karl, Hurricane Reinhard

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. How about Hurricane Bush?

That strikes fear into the heart.

[DS1]

4. Hurricane CounterClockwiseAssKick

:7

[parasim]

5. The problem with naming them like that though...

... is that you really should wait until the hurricane has run it's course if you want to give it a name that describes it's actions, isn't it?

I mean, for instance, when Francis came barrelling though the Bahamas at a steady clip, thrashing away at everything, it was certainly a Tyson, but when it slowed to a standstill, playing a bit of Rope-a-Dope with Florida there just before landfall, it was more of an Ali...

But you're right though, this doesn't look like the work of a "Francis":




and it looks like Ivan the Terrible is living up to his name...


on edit: cleanup

[Racenut20]

8. It was/is FrancEs. A girl name. Every other one, male/female

[parasim]

22. oops. yup, you're right, my bad.

I know it's the female "Frances" but for some reason I kept writing it with an "i".
So I suppose the image that I had above could have been the work of a Francis, or at least one of Sinatra's "friends"...

[Zuni]

12. Ivan the T is among the largest seen

still not on the level of Camille, which had winds of 200+ mph in August 1969 which devestated coastal Louisiana and Mississippi.

Camille should have been renamed

[Fenris]

6. Where's Hurricane Hitler?

[StClone]

7. Yeah

An instead of starting with the letter "A" each year why don't they just start with the next to last letter for a name from the previous season. That way we could get past O and have names that start with Q, R, S, and the rest more often.

And why name them after people? Wouldn't it be appropriate to have a Hurricane called "Wrath" or some other evil word. BTW check this list out: http://www.demonbuster.com/demonlist.html

[jmowreader]

27. The list of names is published five years ahead

And sometimes they have to edit those lists--let's say Ivan was supposed to be the ninth storm of 2008. Ivan is going to do billions in damage. They will never use Ivan again and will have to change it to Ignatius or something.

[Beware the Beast Man]

9. I wholeheartedly disagree.

I think hurricanes should have names that belie their awesome destructive power. I prefer names like Creampuff, Buttercup, Daisy, Noodles, Spanky, Lulu, and the like. Then again, I'm just a sucker for irony...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. LOL...

Hurricane Bambi...

[Cheswick2.0]

18. Sparky, Biff and Skippy

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. With all due respect to the victims...

I can't see naming a hurricane after something evil. I don't mind strong names like Zeus; but I can't put Jeffrey Dahmer in the same category.

A hurricane is something which demands our respect even more than our fear. It's one of Nature's methods of putting Mankind in our place and teaching us humility.

And it serves to make us more compassionate, too. Many of us feel more sympathy toward the person who's lost everything than the guy who never had anything to begin with.

[emulatorloo]

13. Hurricane President-Bush-Photo-Op

EOM

[Zuni]

14. Bush loves these tragedy photo ops

He is practically running on the 9/14 one at the WTC in this election.

[emulatorloo]

17. Maybe they can drop him into the center of IVAN with a megaphone

EOM

[Endangered Specie]

15. here are some:

Adolf
Bush
Cheney
Dole,
E??
Franco
Goering
Hussein
Il
Joseph
Karl
Limbaugh
Milosevik
Nugent
Osama
Pinochet
Qaddafi
Rommel

[Zuni]

16. Hurricane Nugent

sounds like a real dumb f-in storm :)

[antigone382]

26. Enron, my friend

OR maybe Evil Corporate Bastards

[Cheswick2.0]

19. Hurricane Ann the Man Coulter

How about Hurricane Malkin?

[Zuni]

20. Hurricane Malkin would likely

break down before it could do any damage

[Bunny]

21. Let's start an alphabetic list of evil despot hurricane names!

I'll give a few:

Attila
B
C
D
E
F
Ghengis
Hitler
Ivan (or Idi Amin)
J
K
L
Mongol (or Mao)
N
O
Pol Pot
Q
R
Stalin
Thor (or Torquemada)
Ulysses
Vlad the Impaler
W
Xerxes
Y
Zeus

Your turn!

[ulysses]

24. "Ulysses"???

Hey now!

[mark414]

23. haha Hurricane Mike Tyson

classic

[smirkymonkey]

25. In Alphabetical Order:

Ashkkkroft
Bush, Barbaras (Sr.& Jr.)
Cheney or Coulter
Dumbass (GWB)or DeLay
Frist or Fat Tony
George (GWHB)
Hannity
Imbecile (Guess Who?)
Jeb or Jenna
Kristol or Kagan
Lying Sack of Shit or Lott
Marilyn Musgrave
Novak or Nader
O'Lielly
Perle
Queen Elizabeth
Rumsfeld or Rupert (Murdoch)
Schwartzenegger or Santorum or Sciafe
Thomas (Clarence)
U.S. Government
Vladimir
Wolfowitz
Xena the Warrior Princes
Yellow Coward Bastards in the White House
Zell