The Hurricane cocktail got its name in the 1940s at Pat O'Brien's, a family-owned bar in New Orleans. It was World War II and whiskey was hard to come by, so Mr. O’Brien, ever the wartime entrepreneur, experimented with the next best readily available spirit instead. Rum was available in surplus, hence the double measures in the Hurricane cocktail. It was served in glasses that resembled hurricane lamps, curved at the base. And so, the Hurricane cocktail came to life.