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| 9 MAR 2003 at 10:33pm |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3436
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Hmmm. have no idea who picks the names but I do know that they always go in alphabetical order, well,
at least with hurricanes they do.
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| 9 MAR 2003 at 10:42pm |
JoGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 3 NOV 2002
Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | Yes I thought they always went in alphabetical order too, but I don't think the last one here started with "B" somehow. Yes, cyclones and hurricans are the same thing so far as I know.
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| 10 MAR 2003 at 2:38am |
GayleSchattenjger
Posts : 2544
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Aren't cyclones land bound and hurricanes start over water and then can cover land?
I went through a hurricane on an island off of east coast of Mexico a long time ago. It is a strange sensation. No rescue for 4 days. Well water and spam.
It feels like you are going to die any moment then the eye comes, everything stops, complete silence, no wind, no rain and then it starts all over again. The whole village was destroyed. There went my vacation. It also throws up everything it can from the ocean onto the land. They moved us from a beach front hotel to a fisherman's hotel, cots, high adobe walls, open ended hallway and a very small window up high in the wall. It was one of the few standing buildings when everything was over.
I wonder why they use female/make names at all. Come on. Hurricane Craig? Should be something like Hell Hath No Fury Number 1 or such.
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| 10 MAR 2003 at 5:07am |
JoGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 3 NOV 2002
Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | Should be something like Hell Hath No Fury Number 1 or such.
Gee, I do like that suggestion Gayle.
Gosh, that must have been an awesome (and awful)
experience for you - what a holiday!!
Aren't cyclones land bound and hurricanes start over water and then can cover land?
I don't really know about that because her in Oz, they nearly always talk about a cyclone forming off the coast (generally in the North like near Darwin etc), but then heading down the coast, across the coast and sometimes inland. I think the terminology may just depend on the country you're in. Like Typhoons in Asia.
The closest I've been was going to Hong Kong just after one of the worst Typhoons they'd had in years (around 1995). The hotel smelt wet and there were huge landslides on the hills around the town, many people were killed - the houses had just disappeared in the mud slides. But seeing the destruction afterwards is hardly the same as living through it like you did.
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| 10 MAR 2003 at 11:50am |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3436
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Wow! that must have been some experience Gayle.
The closest Ive ever come was when I lived in South Carolina for a summer, and we lived right on the beach,
the waves were so high it was incredible, it as a small Island called Folly beach, but then all of a sudden it fizzled out before it came to shore, ( thank God) I was really scared.
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| 10 MAR 2003 at 12:23pm |
| Deleted User | They should call it -
Timmmeh!
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