Hurricane Watch 2008

[KJ3]

i've got an aunt/uncle in galveston who called us all crazy for even getting worried. if the first line of defense isn't sweating it, i'm certainly not going to but i still see people hording food, all the blinky highway signs saying fill up gas tanks and such and every news channel beeping in "up-to-the-minute" scrolls......for a tropical storm. it's like we went from not giving a crap about a hurricane of any power less than alicia to this ultra-scared group of sillynannies. did edouard even make it to the coast before downgrading to tropical storm?

speaking of alicia, category 5's and how much it would take for a hurricane to make it to houston.....wasn't alicia close to that? i was born right around the same time so i only hear how bad it was....

one more thing-i don't know about you guys, but i think i'm absolutely disgusted with the "naming" of hurricanes. especially names like...dolly...eduoard...even katrina sounds kind of wussy for such an awesome spectacle of nature. i'm sure there is a reason, and other than just counting 1, 2, 3 like anything else that comes in multiples i don't have a better suggestion, but c'mon....hurricane dolly sounds like a female pro wrestler or a crazy drink more than a 50 mile wide hella-storm.