Bob McCarty Writes

It’s a busy hurricane season already:  Gustav just passed, and three more storms — Hanna, Ike and Josephine — are on their way.  As a result, there’s no better time than today to forget about stars and Name a Storm After Someone You Love!
Rather than offer you a gift package that involves selecting a special [...]

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Americans hear it hundreds of times each year, that darn radio commercial that encourages listeners to “name a star after someone you love” before describing how you can dedicate a star to someone special. Today, on the occasion of the 2008 hurricane season’s first storm being named, The Bob McCarty Shop is offering you [...]

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UPDATE: On Friday, I posted a story about decisions being made at the National Hurricane Center and how folks at the center seem to have tossed tradition aside, climbed aboard Al Gore’s global warming bandwagon and, for the first time, named a subtropical storm. I further speculated that their decision was made as [...]

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