…at SUPREME ROAST BEEF

That a hurricane can have the same name more than once?  I was telling Joey about my experience going through Hurricane Irene while living in the FL Keys, when a coconut tree blew onto my house.  He said he didn’t think a hurricane could have the same name twice.  She does have the same name, but I know I don’t have to worry about coconut trees during this Hurricane Irene. 

Hurricane Irene was a hurricane that produced somewhat heavy damage across southern Florida during the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season. The ninth tropical storm and the sixth hurricane of the season, Irene developed in the western Caribbean Sea on October 13 from a tropical wave. It moved northward, hitting western Cuba before attaining hurricane status. Irene struck Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, moved across the state, and moved northward over the Gulf Stream.

The hurricane first produced heavy rainfall across western Cuba, causing four deaths and damage. Irene was a wet Florida hurricane in October, similar to many hurricanes of the 1930s and 1940s. It later dropped 10 to 20 inches (255 to 510 mm) of rainfall in the Miami metropolitan area, causing urban flooding unseen since Hurricane Dennis in 1981. Despite being only a Category 1 hurricane, Irene caused eight indirect deaths and $800 million (1999 USD) in damage across Florida. (from Wikipedia.com)

For every year, there is a pre-approved list of tropical storm and hurricane names. These lists have been generated by the National Hurricane Center since 1953. At first, the lists consisted of only female names; however, since 1979, the lists alternate between male and female.

Hurricanes are named alphabetically from the list in chronological order. Thus the first tropical storm or hurricane of the year has a name that begins with “A” and the second is given the name that begins with “B.” The lists contain hurricane names that begin from A to W, but exclude names that begin with a “Q” or “U.”

Usually, the six lists of names for tropical storms and hurricanes repeat every six years. However, if there is an unusually large or damaging hurricane, the name is retired by the World Meteorological Organization’s hurricane committee because using it again could be considered insensitive.  I experience 3 of the now retired hurricane names while in FL (Georges, Mitch, and Floyd), so am not too worried about Irene.  Of course, I’m not in a concrete house with hurricane shutters now.

Let’s all believe this Irene will be a kinder, gentler lady.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

That is it possible to kayak while talking on the phone?  Our Rocky Neck Madfish Wharf girl, Wendie Demuth of Wendie Demuth Photography, as anyone who knows her knows, loves to talk.  If the Blackburn Challenge introduces a new category next year for rowers who complete the whole course while talking on the phone, I think Wendie would be a serious contender. 

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

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Here are some not particularly great shots of Ardelle as she pulled up to Gloucester Maritime, I think to pick someone up, then went back out and raised her sails and then headed back out of the harbor.  I caught a few shots of her under sail as she passed behind the paint factory (the gates were open, so I got to scoot to the back and catch her as she passed).  The light wasn’t great, but she sure does look alot prettier than when I watched her whiskey/rum plank being installed.  I missed her launch, so it was really great to see her under sail for her maiden voyage.

E.J. Lefavour

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This big nosed naked thing showed up in the flower box at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery yesterday.  Does anyone know what it is, where it came from or who it belongs to?  It looks like it could be part of Paul Morrison’s ever expanding managerie of rubber creatures.  It can stay for now, but I’d love to see it find its way back home.

E.J. Lefavour

  Acquainted with the Night

by Robert Frost

 I have been one acquainted with the night.

I have walked out in rain — and back in rain.

I have outwalked the furthest city light.

 I have looked down the saddest city lane.

I have passed by the watchman on his beat

And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

 I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet

When far away an interrupted cry

Came over houses from another street,

 But not to call me back or say good-bye;

And further still at an unearthly height,

O luminary clock against the sky

 Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

                                       I have been one acquainted with the night.