My friend Andrew in Seattle still winces when someone talks about the damage done by Andrew in Florida. It's time to stop giving hurricanes nice human names. They are not human. They are not nice. And yes, though this next statement is politically incorrect, we must stop giving hurricanes male names.
Hurricanes are female.
Everyone knows this. If you take a picture of a hurricane from space it looks like a giant, girly, swirling skirt gracefully dancing to and fro, capricious in its nature, fickle when it comes to making landfall. If you take a picture of a female ballet dancer from above, she looks exactly the same. Let us have our hurricanes back. But I've got names here for the year 2000.