Hurricane Wilma
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I'm sure many of you have heard that Hurricane Wilma strengthened to a Level 5 Hurricane today. Already, about two-thousand people have been killed, most of them living in Guatemala.
According to researchers, it will hit Florida on the weekend, but not before passing through a bit of Mexico.
Hurricane Wilma has been declared the strongest storm of the year, with winds going up to 180mph.
What are your thoughts on another hurricane arriving?
Holy crap 180MPH and fresh too this is bad, My Mate has just gone on Holliday to Florida.
LET THE HAMMER FALL
Heh, we've run out of names. If any more hurricanes or tropical storms show up before Nov. 30th (Which they likely will.) we'll be using letters of the Greek Alphabet. Hurricane Gamma... gonna be trouble.
Assuming anyone gets through this one of course.
Just gotta take your precautions and be ready to rebuild I suppose.
My brother in law lives in Florida as well. But, it isn't gonna hit there until the weekend most likely.
The size of it is very surprising.
Not as big as Rita or Katrina it's quite small so this is gonna stay fast for a while longer.
LET THE HAMMER FALL
Crap.
We're up to the W's already? This year has gotta be a record. I've said it before, and I'll say it again- that reigion just can't catch a break.
I thought names were picked at random from a certain list that revolves every 5 years.
LET THE HAMMER FALL
Why the hell would anybody want to live in Florida? I just don't get it. The place gets destroyed a good five times per year.
they name them in alphabetical order.
It's probably won't be as strong when it hits the US, but still it doesn't look good.
They just start it over.Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF
But yeah, this afternoon apparently it was declared the strongest Atlantic storm in recorded history (recorded history of hurricanes, that is). They Keys are already under mandatory evacuation. I just hope it scrapes by the tip of Florida and goes back to out see, heads northeast and freezes out.
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This year sucks! All these big hurricanes and now we have more category 5 over night! Ek!
No, they don't. Storms are named boy-girl-boy-girl and proceed through the alphabet. The most powerful ones are eliminated from the list of future storm names for a period of 80 years. Until now no year has seen the end of the list reached, but the procedure is to use letters of the greek alphabet if this does occur, which it almost certainly will now that we're at 'Wilma', the last in the list, a good six weeks before the end of the Hurricane season.
Oh, and the letters 'U', 'Q', 'X', 'Y', and 'Z' are not used, meaning there are a total of 21 names per year. Also in even-numbered years the first name is male, and in odd-numbered the first name is female.
it's the biggest hurrican ever recorded (typhoons are actually larger so we don't count them) and has the lowest pressure ever seen in the northern hemisphere.
but hitting florida is okay. people are getting all paranoid now after katrina. katrina wasn't a problem because of it's size but because of where it hit.
Really? I was always told they just start over at the beginning of the alphabet. Now I feel dumb. I think my way is better though.
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