Monday, June 30, 2014

You can never tell when or where Tropical Storm (Uncle) Arthur will turn up



Well, it seems as if Hurricane Season is upon us, again. Fudge.

The first tropical storm of the season is Arthur, and Arthur is bound and determined to louse up the Fourth of July Weekend, which is Christmas time for Marylanders who lead charmed lives and can head to the beach, while the rest of us poor suckers are sweltering 100% humidity.

Its not Arthur that has me blue - its just with tropical depressions, come rain and wind, and that leads to power outages, which Cookie despises.  BGE did raise our supply lines up by 20 feet, however, the line for the neighborhood feeds along the side of our house from the street and there are plenty-o-big old trees that are just waiting for operatic finish in a big old storm.

Bother.

This years names are as follows: Arthur Bertha Cristobal Dolly Edouard Fay Gustav Hanna Ike Josephine Kyle Laura Marco Nana Omar Paloma Rene Sally Teddy Vicky and Wilfred. If we go beyond this motley lot, then the storms are named after the greek alphabet, if needed. So evidently Uriah, Xerxes, Yolanda and Zasu will have to wait it out another year. Pity.

So I pose the question: If you could rename an entire storm season, from A to Z, what would it be, and which alphabet from the languages of the world would follow?

10 comments:

  1. living in South Florida, the summer daily afternoon rains lower the heat. On the east coast their is always a breeze. So rain has its pluses I guess. As for names, Italians has the most musical sounding names. Starting with Alfonzo.....

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  3. When I hear the current storms name, I look for the wind force and say the name aloud several times to find out if the two match. Sometimes you can tell just by the name if a storm is going to do a lot of damage or not. I'd be more worried if Omar were Olga. The only two that sound like they might be dangerous are Hanna and Vicky. Hurricane Vicky sounds about right for the South.

    As for the task:

    "Hurricane _________"

    Apreciante
    Briana
    Claudine
    Dorcus
    Evilene
    Fabiola
    Grizella
    Hazel
    Iris
    Jemima
    Koolaidria
    Lexus
    Martha
    Noxema
    Odette
    Prancesca
    'Quisha
    Rotundra
    Syphilis
    Treshawn
    Unidastazovamerikaaliqua
    Venereal
    Watermelondrea
    Xantha
    Yolonda
    Zoltron

    Followed by names in Urdu.

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    1. We once stayed in a hotel with a concierge named "Fabiola" She was so preoccupied with her hair that a group of us pretty much ran the show for two days. This make me think that HURRICANE Fabiola would be much too busy fussing with her winds to even notice that she was headed towards Altoona Pennsylvania.

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  4. Hurricane _

    Agnes
    Berilia
    Carrot
    Desiderata
    Esmerelda
    Fliemoe
    Gytha
    Hodgesaargh
    Ixolite
    Jerakeen
    Kelirehenna
    Librarian
    Magrat
    Neville
    Organdy
    Pewsey
    Quarney
    Rincewind
    Shirley
    Teppic
    Urdo
    Vetinari
    Wuffles
    Xeno
    Ynci
    Zlorf

    As for the following alphabet... Maybe the Norfolk alphabet?

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    1. I simply LOVE the idea of a Hurricane "Shirley", as well as one named "Wuffles"!

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  5. If I were to name the storms, Each one of you get a chance to dazzle Al Roker with your might.

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  6. I'm laughing too hard at "Uncle Arthur's" head on a platter to make further comment.

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  7. This was one of the few times I wished I was home in Boston for this one, just to hear it pronounced "trohpic'l stohm Ah-tha."

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