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[camwyn]

Tammy.

Tropical Storm Tammy is loose in the Atlantic.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NO ONE SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THAT NAME.

*twitch*

So long as we don't get to the point of having to use the Greek alphabet names...

Comments

[dragonwhishes.livejournal.com]

*so confused*

What's wrong with the name Tammy?

*Blames it on just waking up*

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

It is kind of a silly, fluffy, harmless name for something that packs more wallop than an A-bomb. I'm just sayin'.

Back before they settled on the personal name thing, there was a brief period in the early 1950s where they used the military letter-naming system, Able-Baker-Charlie, which did have the drawback (which we will see with the Greek alphabet) of what do you do if you have to retire a storm name? I can see that using ordinary nouns would simplify things for people who weren't all that thrilled about having their names ties to a storm, but I can also see the bad jokes we'll get from the TV news people: "Hurricane Eggbeater is moving into the Florida Straits, where it's really mixing things up!" I'm not sure we need to encourage them to talk cute any more than they already do.

[dragonwhishes.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaaaah.

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

YOUR ICON. *pats its noodly appendage*

[little-birdy.livejournal.com]

Heehee! FSM is so kewl.

[camwyn]

Nothing at all, but it might be hard for some people to take it seriously, and if they don't take it seriously they'll make fun of it, and then the storm will HEAR them and ramp up to Category Eight and devour the Carolinas or something. Happened with Mitch, and it just keeps happening since.

[dragonwhishes.livejournal.com]

Meep.

*pokes your brain* JOHN. JOHN, GET OUT HERE. DEZ IS GETTING MARRIED.