I find it slightly ironic that American Hurricanes are called after the "ladies"
When us Brits get the news that "Katrina" or "Hannah" is on the way. it kind of lulls us all into a false sense of benign anxiety!
Irene is a name derived from the Greeks....It's original meaning , ironically is "peace"
Let's hope that hurricane Irene , turns out to be a peaceful squall
My thoughts are with all of you bloggers out there on the Eastern Seaboard
Be safe
CNN Hurricane Info
Very nice!
ReplyDeleteThanks John.
m.
Some of the hurricanes are men's names as well. Just today's news is a lady's name.
ReplyDeleteI never realised that sharon
ReplyDeleteWell I won't say what I started to as Sharon already said it :O)
ReplyDeleteI think every other name is a man's name but I could be wrong. I'll laugh if there's a Hurrican John this year
ReplyDeleteHere is the 2011 Hurricane Season names:
ReplyDeleteTropical Depression Ten Hurricane Irene
Tropical Storm Harvey
Tropical Storm Gert
Tropical Storm Franklin
Tropical Storm Emily
Tropical Storm Don
Tropical Storm Cindy
Tropical Storm Bret
Tropical Storm Arlene
I just hope most of those names are never needed.
~Jo
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ReplyDeletePleased you had a good break, sometimes a change in scenery is just what the doctor ordered. Big hugs. Sue x
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you had a nice break too! I can't imagine what it's like being in the middle of a hurricane, my thoughts are with them!
ReplyDeleteYou obviously have never met the women in my life John.
ReplyDeleteI doubt I could count them all let alone remember their names chris
ReplyDeleteThanks John. We are all hunkering down, getting things put away, tied down and ready for Irene to make her debut sometime Sat. night here in the NorthEast (Southern New Jersey) . BTW - I believe that now days, we alternate male and female hurricane names alphabetically each year. The next one this year may very well be John.
ReplyDeleteAnd the word hurricane came to us from Spanish who in turn borrowed it from the Arowks of the Caribbean. 'Hurracan' (or furacão in Portuguese) simply means 'storm'.
ReplyDeleteIrene is a really scarey looking storm and is larger than TEXAS.
ReplyDeleteDid ya'll forget about Hurricane Ike that basically wiped out the Galveston area in 2008?
I am just surprised at how folks just blow off not leaving. To me it's better safe than sorry.
I went through Georges in 1998 while stationed on Keesler AFB; that was a mess to shelter and then the clean up. Three days no power and taking care of troops and an elderly couple. I shudder to think of folks not taking the evac notices seriously.
Smooches,
Mal
My daughter is in Miami...she sent me a photo this morning...apparently Irene wasn't so bad there. Now...the carolinas could be a whole different story!
ReplyDeleteFor many years the hurricanes were just named after women, but in 1979, they changed it to include men. Since then, many of the really big winds have been named after men. Andrew, Hugo and Floyd come to mind.
ReplyDeleteAnd I hear they have evacuated the White House!
ReplyDeleteThanks John. We will have a better idea as to exactly what is in store for us late on Saturday. Probably some flooding as we are at sea level.
ReplyDeleteThe really big winds come from the men, you say, Starting Over?
ReplyDelete"I doubt I could count them all let alone remember their names... " LOLOLOL!
Sorry, serious now.
http://www.stormpulse.com/atlantic?desc=NHC&idx=38&trk=1&sid=201109&lat=28.2&lon=-77.7&z=1&rd=0&cd=0&tk=1&ww=0&mo=0&sl=0&ht=0&mg=0&ob=0&wf=1&ml=1&ql=0
ReplyDeleteAbove is a link to a great website that shows the track of Irene. Sorry I couldn't condense it. I've forgotten how to do that. As it stand now all they're promising us is 35 mph winds but I worry for those in the direct path, like hubby's family in Virginia Beach and all along the coast there. Wish she would move more out to sea.
There are 'male' storms, John. It's just that most of them die out before they become hurricanes.
ReplyDeleteBut thank you. Glad your time away helped you. ♥
Well, good luck to all those further north...we seem to be out of the direct path of most of these beauties...but copped lots of rain and a few big landslips. No one killed this time, thank goodness.
ReplyDeleteThanks John! :)
ReplyDeleteThe storm's just starting to pick up now. The eye's supposed to pass right over us and make it pretty nasty starting between 2 and 4am.
We're all hunkered down, and ready to ride it out!
pleased to say we are far enough inland it won't bother us...
ReplyDeletefeel sorry though for those on the coast....
Gill
Yes Hurricane Juan clobbered us in Nova Scotia in 2003, no power for 8 days, 14 trees down on our property and I won't go any further. That winter we had a huge snow storm dubbed White Juan, the first time a snow storm was ever named. So..YES...men's names are being use now.
ReplyDeleteThe next named storm for this year will be 'Jose' the one after that will be 'Katia' ~~ Looks like we're both not going to have our names used this year John! :-)
ReplyDeleteI have 2 friends living in North Carolina. While they live inland, they're not too far from the coast. I'm worried sick about them.
ReplyDeleteI'm also saying prayers for those about to get slammed.
John, it used to be that US hurricanes had female names, but they changed that back in the women's lib days and now it's every other male-female.
ReplyDeleteIt's coming to NYC and the disaster porn hype is crushing. The media can hardly contain their glee. Sigh. Just hoping for no injuries or loss of power.
ReplyDeleteThat's funny, we were just talking about that last night, saying that Irene sounded too benign. But we had trouble coming up with a more menacing female I name - Ivana was all we could come up with!
ReplyDeleteGood luck to those Canadians and Americans affected.
Yes, I sent a similar message yesterday John. All I can add is to thank goodness we do not live in a hurricane area. Certainly that east coast has had a long list of awful weather catastrophes over the last few months.
ReplyDeleteBut what about Typhoon Nanmadol? Much stronger and more destructive than Hurricane Irene. It has just whirled through the Philippines and is on its way to China. Of course western media organisations wouldn't care too much about that storm as it's only affecting little yellow people with slit eyes.
ReplyDeleteWe have evacuated from our home and moved inland. Isabel did a lot of damage to trees and power lines leaving some in our city without power for 3 weeks. Nearby water front areas had a lot of flooding. I hope Irene is not as bad, maybe tomorrow we will find out.
ReplyDeleteAs for names they alternate male and female names, and each year they alternate which they start with. The names of the bad storms are not reused, so Andrew, Katrina, Isabel, Camille, Floyd, for example, will not be used again.
Helen
oh goodness that photo scares me. Wishing all of our Americian friends good wishes and safety over the weekend...
ReplyDeleteI'm about 40 miles south, more or less, of where she came ashore in NC. I live on the water, so I packed up a few things and came to my mother's. We are on the back side now and it looks like it will be early evening before it calms down. I talked to a friend that lives another street over from my home. She had no electricity and big trees down in yard. I am hoping, hoping, I have none on my house. My mom lives on a farm. Things aren't looking too bad so far from what I can see. I am worried that she may have lost the chickens for it looks like the roof of the coop is in the back yard. It's been too bad for me go out and check and I don't know that I am going to be able to stomach what I find because it is also flooded out in that area. It's not over yet, but we are hunkered down and safe.
ReplyDeleteI'm about 40 miles south, more or less, of where she came ashore in NC. I live on the water, so I packed up a few things and came to my mother's. We are on the back side now and it looks like it will be early evening before it calms down. I talked to a friend that lives another street over from my home. She had no electricity and big trees down in yard. I am hoping, hoping, I have none on my house. My mom lives on a farm. Things aren't looking too bad so far from what I can see. I am worried that she may have lost the chickens for it looks like the roof of the coop is in the back yard. It's been too bad for me go out and check and I don't know that I am going to be able to stomach what I find because it is also flooded out in that area. It's not over yet, but we are hunkered down and safe.
ReplyDeleteSorry about the double post. I'm on dial-up. Can't get used to how sloooow it is.
ReplyDeleteThis storm has me worried. I am so used to the hoopla about these weather events and then for some reason, my area escapes, that I was not overly concerned. Now the projection is more west and they are telling us we are no longer in the tropical storm path but right smack in the hurricane. That means 70+ mph winds and 7 to 10" of rain on an already soaked ground. She should be here in about 6 hours and should last until tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully, I will not wake up with a willow tree in my bedroom window.
ReplyDeleteThe rain has been heavy in New York City for hours. No flooding so far (and I'm only about 2 1/2 blocks from the East River, in Dumbo, Brooklyn). Expecting the winds and very heavy rain to hit in the early morning. Hoping the power stays on. Good luck to everyone in Irene's path.
ReplyDeleteIt went west of me, so we haven't had much rain, but we are getting strong gusts of wind, and may have storm surges if the wind doesn't shift direction in time.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest problem near me, so the newscasters say, is the soaked ground plus high winds can mean lots of trees going down, and causing power outages.
When others named bad storms, Donna was another in 1960, Belle, in 1976, and Bob in 1991. Those names are retired now, too.
megan
Thanks John...the hubster is driving from Philadelphia to Boston today (business trip), and filling me in on the aftermath of the storm as he does. Mainly flooding. I think it'll be quite a clean up but it could've been worse. That photo of the storm is staggering. The size of these things lately just amazes me.
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