You’ll understand why storms are named after people.

Why our poet chose to give his 1958 hurricane a little-used Spanish name sometimes given to parrots) instead of Linda or Lois, is not clear.

one of the benefits of having an odd name is that it is very unlikely you will share a name with a major hurricane

The hurricane that has swept us away is so strange & new a phenomenon that we shall not for some time understand its real meaning. ... It seems to me to be inspired by some definite desire for change: & means business. It may disappear as rapidly as it came: or it may be the beginning of a serious war of classes. Gladstone is doing all he can to give it the latter meaning.

Here comes the story of The Hurricane, the man the authorities came to blame for something that he never done. </br> Put in a prison cell, but one time he coulda been the champion of the world.

My mom picked the name "Al Hurricane", because I used to knock things over as a kid and it stuck to me. So I took it as my professional name.

All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.

[imitating weatherman] "Okay, let's go to our new hurricane weather map...(screen behind him shows a massive cyclone) ...FUCK! This is Hurricane Siobhan. The map is the entire South. The asshole in the middle is Dallas...um, crazy...back to you, Ted, I just shit myself.

I think that’s the part that scares me the most. We’re losing generations of people who know the anatomy of these things. And we’re getting new people into our space who have no clue what a hurricane is, and the hurricanes that we know to describe are not the ones we’re facing now.

I don’t want to sound pessimistic, but real hurricanes are blowing more strongly – and the wind in our heads. Look out for yourself!

There are... many... names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.

A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known — that’s sin.

Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be.

Little tornado You and the hurricane Close your eyes and go campaign Make it go faster Baby go faster Make it go twice the speed of you and me