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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The nation’s weather experts offered their hurricane forecast for the year this morning:
“For the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, NOAA scientists predict 13 to 17 named storms, with seven to 10 becoming hurricanes, of which three to five could become major hurricanes of Category 3 strength or higher,” said retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, [...]

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Yesterday, the first wanna-be-a-hurricane storm of the season in the Atlantic was named Andrea by officials at the National Weather Service’s National Hurricane Center. As near as I can determine, however, the naming action represents the first time our nation’s weather experts have given a name to a subtropical storm. Why? Because, [...]

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President Ralph W. Eathervane hopes expert predictions of a busy storm season result in brisk business this year for his company, International Storm Registry, which auctions and/or sells naming rights to violent and destructive storms around the world.

“Experts predict 17 named storms in 2007, with nine of them hurricanes and five capable of sustained winds [...]

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