Going Greek

Keeping with the current theme of this blog, I have a new thing to post.

This is the track for Tropical Storm ALPHA! Thats right, they ran out of normal names and had to switch to the greek alphabet. 2005 is now the busiest hurricane season on the books. Of course, the books are only about 150 years old - and the planet is 5 or 6 billion years old (unless you do not believe in science and think the Earth is only 6,000 years old because this is the number a bunch of stone age men decided to run with a few thousand years ago).

The point is that there could have been a lot of seasons busier than 2005 - we just do not know about them. Nobody was keeping records. Dinosaurs could not write. And even then, Floirda was a large coral reef at that time. And even further back, Floirda was just a few coral heads and some sponges. There could have been a whole lot of big storms back then, and only some snails and fish would have known about them.

Alpha will not do very much - just dump some rain on Hispanola and the Turks And Caicos Islands. Nothing at all to worry about.

But now that tropical storms are going greek, frat boys all over the USA will be happy. Those storms can really party! Even a weak hurricane can funnel an unlimited amount of beer.

Tomorrow - non hurricane related posts! Maybe. Who knows. Anything can happen here is crazy land!