Weather Royalty.

[camwyn]

A bunch of you folks no doubt know that cadhla is the Rain King, with the power to bring rain or send it away as she sees fit. She's entitled to that title, I've seen her in action. But I have a feeling that she's not the only Weather Royalty around, although if anything I'm at best a lesser scion of the royal family. Say, the Hurricane Baronet or something.

See, in the past, every time I've mocked or made fun of or otherwise commented about a hurricane's name, it's gone nasty on us. Mitch was the first. It was a category 2 storm on its way to dying out when I commented that it was hard to be afraid of a storm named after the actor who plays Skinner on X-Files. (Who, it should be noted, was infinitely more drool-worthy than Duchovny ever could have been.) Mitch promptly swelled up to Category 5 and attempted to destroy Honduras. When Floyd rolled around I had to laugh - I mean, come on. Floyd? We have a TV performer here in Jersey called Uncle Floyd, who wears a porkpie hat and a plaid jacket and is generally not the kind of person whose name inspires awe and fear. Of course, as soon as I made the comparison aloud, Floyd turned around, went to Category 4, and headed for the American coast. . . thankfully he was down to category 2 by the time he arrived at my end of NJ, but in the process he drowned the innocent towns of Bound Brook and Manville. He also ended a particularly ugly drought. It was like that Simpsons episode with the asteroid: "Don't worry, kids! It'll probably burn down to a lump the size of a Chihuahua's head by the time it gets to Earth!"

Well... we're having a drought again. Lots of the East Coast is having a drought again. I think the Carolinas have had close to three straight years of inadequate rainfall.

I'm told there's a tropical storm system forming in the Gulf of Mexico.

I think I have to go see what the next mockable name on the list is. The Hurricane Baronet may have to ride again.

Comments

[firestrike.livejournal.com]

Hmm...You only mock the MALE hurricanes?

This just in: "J. is gender-biased towards tropical storms!"

Honestly, I never understood why they started using male names for those storms. It was much more appropriate when they were all female.

-M

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[camwyn]

Meh. None of the female ones sounded silly enough to mock. I wager on whether they'll get far enough in the female-named storms to hit the name of someone I know - each year the list includes at least one hurricane with the name of someone around me. Allison, for example, though they spelled it with two L's and the Alison I know uses one. Rita, too, though they didn't get that far down the list. I think one year they may have even hit Joyce... Oh, and I did want to lay odds on the storms getting down the list to 'Walter' the year 'Rita' was on the list, as that's the chapter CEO's name.

Not my fault in 1980 they started alternating male/female names. Quick, for ten points, what was the name of the first 'himicane'?