A Storm By Any Other Name

Okay, so what happened? How the heck did we get left out of the event-naming phenomenon courtesy of our friends at The Weather Channel?

East Coast just got through with Hurricane Sandy, which evolved (or, rather, devolved) into Tropical Storm Sandy (although it might have lost its name status when it became a tropical storm), and then, and ya gotta love this, it became Superstorm Sandy. So, first of all, what's the difference between a regular storm, or a tropical storm, and a superstorm? Does it have a cape?

Then, we had Winter Storm Athena (got to make sure we capitalize the words 'Winter' and 'Storm') and Winter Storm Brutus.

So, we just had a 4.3-magnitude quake here in Kentucky and it doesn't have a name yet. What gives? I mean, come on! It rattled seven states. Seven states! Doesn't that count for anything?

At any rate, I feel it warrants a letter to The Weather Channel (cordial, of course) with a few name suggestions. Here they are:

Earthquake Clay -- in honor of a couple of our notable past politicians.

Earthquake Jacob -- good ol' Biblical name.

Earthquake Hamilton -- going back to a good, solid presidential name.

Or, let's jazz things up a little. Since we can have a Superstorm, how about something more dramatic, like:

Building Pulverizer Xena.

And, why stop with just winter storms? Let's keep it going, with F4 Tornado Tess, Windstorm Adam, Rain Event Frederick. Just not sure if anyone would want their name associated with a Drizzle, though.

'til next time... Adios.