Gustav?

[Mafesto]

Gustav?

Just who in the heck is naming these storms anyway?

Gustav sounds like the foreign exchange student that is always eating lefsa.





Gustav.......WTF?

 

[Mafesto]

How many times do these folks in New Oreans need to have their azz kicked before they realize that living BELOW SEA LEVEL may not be that good of an idea?

 

[Wade]

The Mexicans were upset that all the hurricanes had English names, but they got hit with about half the hurricanes. So they compromised, and name some of them Mexican names. Personally, I would have told them to get their own weather meteorologist prediction system, and call them what ever the Frac they wanted. That's what happens when were trying to be the nice guy, and doing all the long term forecasting for everyone.

 

[Wade]

Last I heard, the west side was expecting surge water of over 20 feet, they only built their levees for 10 feet.

Get out your wallet, were gonna be paying for this one too.

 

[Master]

I am tired of paying for an area that neededs to be given back to Mother Nature.

 

[Gimpster]

Mexican thinking
They wouldn't remember the name after drownding anyway

----- Gimpster -----

 

[Wade]

Sounds like it's veering off to the west a little, and not as powerful as they predicted. But, I guess we'll see if the levies hold.

 

[POLZIN]

I am tired of paying for an area that neededs to be given back to Mother Nature.

No Chit ! WTF! Some common f'ing sense HELLLOOOO!kinda like the people in the midwest that got flooded againThis spring . I saw a guy on the news that actually said " they told us it was the 500 year flood when this happened in 93 " WTF do people not get about the Phrase "FLOOD PLAIN " It seems pretty simple to me !

 

[sno-x]

The thing is 500 hundred years ago every square inch of Iowa wasnt drained and tiled....so now when there is a bunch of rain it doesnt get held up, instead it rushes to every river and stream..... thus more flooding

 

[ArcticBoy]

Gustav is a Mexican??????????

 

[Barnes]

I think they should start naming huricanes after strippers. Personally, I would rather have my house destroyed by something named Starlet or Ginger then Gustav.

On a more serious note, two of the guys I work with are from the south (one from north of Houston, and one from Lafayette). Needless to say, things are a pretty serious around here.

 

[Wade]

OK, I looked it up. Seems they added lots of different country names.
Hurricane Names History

For several hundred years, hurricanes in the West Indies were often named after the particular saint’s day on which the hurricane occurred. For example "Hurricane San Felipe" struck Puerto Rico on 13 September 1876. Another storm struck Puerto Rico on the same day in 1928, and this storm was named "Hurricane San Felipe the second." Later, latitude-longitude positions were used. However, experience has shown that using distinctive names in communications is quicker and less subject to error than the cumbersome latitude longitude identification methods.

Using women’s names became the practice during World War II, following the use of a woman’s name for a storm in the 1941 novel "Storm" by George R. Stewart. In 1951 the United States adopted a confusing plan to name storms by a phonetic alphabet (Able, Baker, Charlie), and in 1953 the nation’s weather services returned to using female names. The practice of using female names exclusively ended in 1978 when names from both genders were used to designate storms in the eastern Pacific. A year later, male and female names were included in lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. The name lists, which have been agreed upon at international meetings of the World Meteorological Organization, have a French, Spanish, Dutch, and English flavor because hurricanes affect other nations and are tracked by the public and weather services of many countries.

The Tropical Prediction Center in Miami, FL keeps a constant watch on oceanic storm-breeding grounds. Once a system with counterclockwise circulation and wind speeds of 39 mph or greater is identified, the Center gives the storm a name from the list for the current year. The letters Q, U, X, Y, and Z are not included because of the scarcity of names beginning with those letters. Names associated with storms that have caused significant death and/or damage are usually retired from the list.

 

[XXL]

Gustav?

Just who in the heck is naming these storms anyway?

Gustav sounds like the foreign exchange student that is always eating lefsa.





Gustav.......WTF?

Pretty soon they will be Hamid, and Achmed. Let's just hope we don't get hit by catagory 6 storm Hurricane..................................."Barack" in Nov.

 

[Wade]

Pretty soon they will be Hamid, and Achmed. Let's just hope we don't get hit by catagory 6 storm Hurricane..................................."Barack" in Nov.

Yha, but a Barack hurricane is all empty eye wall. All it'll do is mess your hair up and leave trash in your yard, no real content. But, it does have a low barometric pressure, it really sucks.

 

[powdersledder]

One day I hope to build my house in the bottom of a bath tub......and hope nobody ever turns the water on.

 

[onlyrotax]

I vote we name the next hurricane----- wait for it-------- "The Looter".

 

[Mafesto]

I vote we name the next hurricane----- wait for it-------- "The Looter".

"Hurricane Looter" hmmmmmm
Ya know? I think that just might work if we can use the famous picture down in the corner of the screen.!



I always thought Heinekin should've used that guy somehow in their advertising.
Would've made for a funny commercial!