Their own maps showed the storm going straight up the middle of the Atlantic.

If it blows and sucks hard it's gotta be a Republican storm . . . Bush's fault again.

And if the storm doesn't track as everyone hopes, it must be a Democratic storm.

No,

it's my Irish B/F Michael,

who is pi$$ed off he can't get into america legally,

while Obama is giving away free cards for just the vote

to the young whose parrents brought them in illegal.

MRI Virginia,

I think Leslie at 75 mph is headed for Bermuda (see map above) and it is Cat 1. Michael, (on same map extreme right upper with a perfect "eye" formed and that, on the other hand, the CAT 3 storm) is heading North East towards the Azores - not to worry, as Michael is heading away from US coast.

Leslie will parallel US coast all the way up to the Maritime Provinces, again no problem for US excepy higher waves and some rip currents along coastal waters.

Thank God for the safe landing during a horrible storm. Angels steadied the wings on that plane! God is so awesome!

Thank God for the safe landing during a horrible storm. Angels steadied the wings on that plane! God is so awesome!

No, skilled pilots steadied the wings. If "God" were so great, he would have never put them in danger in the first place. Pilots put a lot of hard work into learning how to safely operate aircraft in the worst conditions, how dare you take credit from them and give it to some fictitious magic sky wizard? I'll be impressed with your "god" when all the hungry are fed, all the sick are treated and all the crime stops.

Believe me, we don't want you in Maine.

So pack the kids, dogs and documents and head to MAINE!

Is Maine not on the coast anymore?

They are not named after people, they are simply given a name. This makes them easier to track and much easier to recall. If someone had said "wow, hurricane 69 19.4N 82.0W" was a pretty bad storm you would have to look up all the info to figure out which it was, but if they say "Hurricane Camille" you know EXACTLY which storm, what year, and how bad just from the name.

All hurricanes were named based on the coordinates where the storm first appeared but this was difficult to remember when tracking multiple storms. They also named them based on the day or the place where they hit such as the Labor Day Hurricane or Galveson Hurricane. With storms taking the similar tracks and hitting the same places fairly frequently, you can see how this could be confusing from year to year so unless you said "1935" you wouldn't know which Labor Day hurricane was meant. In WWII, military meteorologists started calling the storms the names of girlfriends or other people they knew and NOAA soon discovered that was easier and adopted that system in 1953. My name comes up every six years as well, though mine is so far down the list, we very seldom get a named storm let alone a damaging Hurricane with my name. My brother's name is Michael and I don't think he cares one whit that the storm has his name. Looks to me like neither of them will make landfall, and therefore not be retired from the list so look for your name to come up again in 2018 and chill out! They didn't name it after YOU (well, except for the fact that you obviously were named before this storm was)

I have a friend who's name is Dean. So when I asked him if he was getting royalties when his name was chosen for one of the most destructive Category 5 Hurricanes on record, he busted up laughing.

Also! I agree with you that it is so much easier to use peoples names to identify a particular Hurricane.

I think they should use adjectives to best describe the storm like "We're screwed, Not too bad or get the heck out. I think that would serve two things. A name and a description. It could be even NorthCarolina "Watch out" But, I'm sure it will remain the same until technology can predict exactly where it is going to hit; then they can use the County, Country, City or States name. Just my humble opinion. But, I know for sure that it surely isn't Bush's or Obama's fault.

Agreed Trilca, I've lived in New England all my life. I'll take a winter up here over a summer down south any day.

I have a friend who lives in Houston. He laughs at my snow. I laugh at his 300/mo AC bills.

With a name like Michael why isn't it called a Himacanne?

My son is in the Navy, and I ask him the same question a few years back. He told me that it wouldn't be a very good captian that did not avoid a hurricane. They have plenty of warning and can get out of the way. His opinion... sounds right to this dumb country boy too.

What do the ships do?

That's not a 'dumb question' at all. The ships, commercial or military, do reroute themselves to stay well clear of the storms, and that includes leaving port if a severe enough storm, [Hurricane or Nor'easter] is approaching. Small ships can be rolled and over-washed by waves, have their cargo shift or hatches be torn open or just take on more water than their pumps can handle. Even large container ships can have the containers break loose and be thrown overboard, or thrown into each other causing damage to them, the ship, or throwing off the ships balance so it may roll to the side.

The US subs are all nuke powered and can stay submerged for months if they need to, so when they're deployed they don't spend much time on the surface anyway. But if they're in the path of a storm they all go deep and stay there or leave the path of the storm; the rolling and thrashing around on the surface could toss the sailors into metal bulkheads injuring them, and risk damage to exterior rudders and planes, and interior control systems.

Storms can potentially twist, bend and flex even the largest ships, and beyond what they are designed for.

Submarines stay submerged. They don't feel a thing.

And as they float through the air towards Gilbraltor, they'll be screaming "I told you so!".