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"What's in a name?"
Posted by frodis on 10-02-12 at 04:43 PM
Especially when you're inside drinking hot cocoa, watching the school closures and wondering whether your neighbor with the snowblower will offer to do your driveway.

The Weather Channel will now be naming winter storms


I know I dread having to clean up after Draco.



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"RE: What's in a name?"
Posted by kidflash212 on 10-02-12 at 04:50 PM
Who chose those names? Freyr, Ukko, Orko and Q?

"RE: What's in a name?"
Posted by frodis on 10-02-12 at 04:54 PM
Nerds.



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"RE: What's in a name?"
Posted by kidflash212 on 10-02-12 at 04:58 PM
Weather nerds. A dangerous subset.
"RE: What's in a name?"
Posted by frodis on 10-02-12 at 05:11 PM
I like how they played off "Kahn" as a Mongolian conquerer when we all know that they picked that one just to get video of Jim Cantore yelling "KAAAAAAAHN" while he gets whipped in the face with ice pellets.



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"RE: What's in a name?"
Posted by kidflash212 on 10-02-12 at 05:27 PM
And Draco is a Athenian legislator, not Harry's enemy.
"RE: What's in a name?"
Posted by kingfish on 10-02-12 at 06:36 PM
Or a (shhhhh) usta be poster.
"RE: What's in a name?"
Posted by qwertypie on 10-06-12 at 12:32 PM
"Weather nerds. A dangerous subset."
I think I'm starting to get a little turned on.
"RE: What's in a name?"
Posted by Snidget on 10-02-12 at 04:53 PM
Some around here call the blizzard of 2000 Blanche.

Every other storm that shut down that much for that long got a name.

"RE: What's in a name?"
Posted by Estee on 10-02-12 at 05:26 PM
Yeah, it's always a little messy after his head explodes. But for naming winter storms, nothing will ever replace my favorite: the two-day extravaganza of power outages, plowed-in cars, re-burials, (eventual) spinouts, snow up my legs and down my back, slushballs being thrown about the neighborhood, and leaking roof during the melt phase that was good old !@#$!@#$ !@#$! ^^!#!$#@ !@#%^ *& !#$!@ $!@%$%#!@%$! !!!!!!!

I can refer to it by name to this day and everyone knows exactly what I'm talking about.

"Wahahaaa"
Posted by moonbaby on 10-03-12 at 01:44 PM
I remember that storm!
"The seven storms"
Posted by IceCat on 10-06-12 at 01:21 PM

... you can't say on television?
"RE: What's in a name?"
Posted by byoffer on 10-03-12 at 09:32 AM
Last winter it seemed they warned us for days about an impending storm. Everyone prepared. Many worked from home. then it came... and was a wimpy little dusting of snow.

The mock name given to the storm was Snowmageddon.


"RE: What's in a name?"
Posted by Molaholic on 10-03-12 at 10:04 AM
Obviously, there be Trekkies in the naming counsel.