Sunday, June 17, 2007

Man! My name has been retired from the Hurricane Names list :(

Apparently their list gets recycled every six years unless a country requests a name be retired, and then it's replaced in the loop.

Mine got retired in 2001 for 'devastating' southern Texas. Also hit hard were Louisiana and South East Pennsylvania! Sorry, Philly.

I remember 6 years before that I rained on my Aunt Lesley and Uncle Joe's honeymoon. I mean, if they were going to get rain, at least it had a slightly humorous twist.
(...They got married in fall 1994 though... maybe they delayed their honeymoon until the next spring. I'll have to ask)

So if I hadn't retired in 2001 I would have been first up again this year! Now I'll never be a hurricane again :(

Glen is a back-up name for Fiji tropical cyclones. Are you a hurricane?

(So this is probably when I should get off wikipedia and go back to my flash cards...)

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