Kim Possible Oct 27, 2025

I hate that anyone named Melissa will now be associated with this potentially deadly hurricane. I have a friend named Katrina who changed her name to Kat after the 2005 hurricane killed nearly 1400 people.

Maybe we could just name hurricanes/cyclones after the oil companies and the billionaires who profit off them? Have to reuse the names a lot, but we can just add numbers, like we do for Kings or Popes: ExxonMobil III or BP XIX.

#Hurricane #Melissa

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@kimlockhartga The flip side of this includes people who kinda love their name's newfound infamy. My friend Mitch got a huge kick out of the headlines generated by Hurricane Mitch (not the actual destruction, mind you, just the headlines) -- things like "Mitch Bearing Down on Central America" and "Mitch Pounds Honduras" gave him the giggles.
Oct 28, 2025 at 2:42amWeb
Show threadKim Possible Oct 28, 2025
@Soozcat oh wow. Yes, I have triplet stepbrothers and two had hurricanes with their names: Mitch and Dean. Heath got left out.