There's a big hurricane West of Mexico. They say that it could get up to a Cat 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Looks to be heading for some major league tourist areas. Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, Acapulco, etc.
The unfortunate name for this monster is "Rick".
C'mon, really? Rick? That's the best they can do?
Rick isn't scary. Rick is a name for a guy that's on your bowling team. Rick borrows your gardening tools. Rick works in some Cube Farm downtown. Rick is not a name for a monster hurricane.
I mean, can you hear it? "Ooo! Run for the hills! Rick cometh! Rick will slay us ALL!"
Can you recall any monsters named Rick? Rick von Dracula. Dr Jekyll and Mr. Rick. Rick, the Terror of the Deep!
Not happening.
The only thing that can save this is if the great minds down at the Hurricane Naming Center tried to change Rick into something slightly Baltic, like, "Vrick" cuz, you all know, all the cool scary names start with two consonants, the first being a "V". Or maybe if they changed it to some sort of viral sounding name like "Rickotosis" or "Rickanoma"
Seriously, Rick for a hurricane name is pretty weak. It's about one step above calling a hurricane, "Dude" or "Pal".
This brings up a need for some changes to the Naming procedure for hurricanes. I don't think hurricanes should be named until we can see how bad it's going to be. There could be an "A" list, where the names for the really nasty storms, Cat 4's and 5's, could be stored. Vlad. Octavian. Dan. And then a "B" list for those storms that never really do impressive storm stuff. Never make landfall or just sort of get close to South Carolina and say, "Aw, forget it. This is stupid." For those storms they can be called Larry, Rick or Bobert.
Just something I was thinking about.
Sounds wonderful. Give her a fiery purple wave from me, k?
