It has been a blissfully quiet Hurricane season thus far. Weather conditions for development have been unfavorable, which is something I, uh, favor. It’s been so slow on the storm front that I haven’t spent too much time complaining about the wimpy names appended to far too many Hurricanes. I want Hurricane names to evoke fear, loathing, and all that jazz.This year’s list is pretty dull, it doesn’t have anything as silly as Danny or Florence but Hurricane Wendy does not inspire terror although I have two pretty terrifying friends of that name…
Why am I going on about this? Why do I go on about anything? The reason for this self-indulgent exercise is a suggestion by 350.orgthat we name storms after climate change deniers. It’s a capital idea, almost as good as naming them after dead dictators; imagine Hurricane Idi Amin Dada.The site comes complete with a video and one of them new fangled internets petitions for you kids to sign. Here’s the video:
I’m pleased as punch that the worthies at 350.org included the junior Sinator from Louisiana in the video. They missed out on the whole Diaper Dave mythos but otherwise did a good job…
Visit the web site, sign the petition, and leave your suggestion for a scary, fearsome, and bad ass Hurricane name in the comment section here at First Draft. Yeah, I’m begging for comments. Hope that doesn’t make me a spud or a hobbit…