Re: O.T. - Hurricanes: no more names in our alphabet are available



Jim Thompson wrote:

> On 17 Oct 2005 10:14:48 -0700, Winfield Hill
> <Winfield_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > "The Atlantic Ocean hurricane season tied a 1933 record for
> > the busiest ever as Tropical Storm Wilma formed today over
> > the Caribbean Sea."
> >
> > http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aUnk9zxPVQJk
> >
> > "All the letters of the alphabet except Q, U, X, Y and Z are
> > used to name storms. After Wilma, the storms will be named
> > for the letters in the Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma,
> > Delta and so on."
>
> Why? Is the government bureaucracy so ignorant that it can't make
> names from those letters ?:-)

No imagination at all !

Graham

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