Just a little fun stuff.
Hurricane Names
The position of this web site is that giving human names to hurricanes is a silly fad that could end any time, like now, and that would be fine by me. However, when someone posted on X, "How do I get a hurricane named after me?", I realized that this may be a matter of concern for some people, so...
The Weather Service has a list of reasonably common human names that are given to hurricanes in alphabetical order, rotating every six years. You can see the list at
There's also a list of names that were given to hurricanes that did enough damage that people don't want any future hurricanes to be confused with their Peaks of Awfulness, so those names have been retired. There will never be another Hurricane Camille, or Katrina, or Helene. The very first name retired from the list was Carol, in 1954. Some hurricane names may have been retired because they were expected to do so much more harm than they did that they're embarrassing to the Weather Service, like Floyd. You probably never even heard of some of the hurricanes on the "retired names" list. If you're old enough you may remember a hurricane from a year before the name was given to one you never heard of, and retired; I remember a Hurricane Jeanne but not the one for which they retired the name.
Music
A tune for the Perseid meteor shower of August:
North Carolina Update
The people who complained to WCYB-TV about their leases through March 2026 being terminated this week seem not to have been available for comment. (Does that mean they've been thrown out on the streets already? Wretched FEMA scum. Trump, we want them fired.)
Some people's leases were terminated for breach of contract, as in selling drugs out of their FEMA-funded apartments. Those were not the people featured on WCYB News Center 5. They deserved what they got. They should be chased out from under bridges near where decent people live.
The spox for a group called Hurricane Helene Help said, however, that there are people in western North Carolina who were qualified for FEMA-funded apartments and have never got them. Person did not disclose where these people's disabilities are primarily physical or mental but said they were renting hotel rooms out of their disability pensions. Er. Um. How many nights in a hotel room will a disability pension pay for? What kind of credit card debt are these people racking up? Are their disabilities the kind that keep them from understanding credit card debt?
Because FEMA clearly politicized their relief work, a North Carolina Republican couple have been reporting extensively on the situation there. I can say only this much. While the FEMA-funded tenants were at risk of losing their shelter, these Rs were posting about their disgust with a D rally that took place in Asheville over the weekend. "Can you see it?" one of them asked readers, sharing a photo of what looked like a fairly normal crowd, casually dressed, some waving signs, walking away from the camera. Well, they all looked White, at least from behind. I don't know whether that was what he wanted people to notice. But what about the tenants, I asked him. No reply.
There seems to be some rivalry among different North Carolina keyboard warriors who've been posting on behalf of their community. They were questioning each other about how money donated to their local hurricane relief efforts was being spent. By now there could well have been a feeling that everyone has a roof over their heads (which is not true--that's the new problem) and they might as well donate the surplus funds to the religious or political groups they support. That was premature and will generate ill feeling if it's happened.
This message goes out to the tenants. If youall have been evicted or not put into an apartment, because of physical disabilities or political considerations, NOT drug offenses...I know of a house whose owner is offering it for sale on a down-payment-and-rent-to-own, bank-free basis. It's not Asheville but it does have views of mountains and autumn color. I don't think my town has a lot of Trump fans but we mapped red in November and don't hate Republicans. We could have better wheelchair access but we are working on that, in our slow, low-cash-flow way.
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