Naming your fears
In days of yore they would have made a few simple announcements.
Rain will continue, heavy at times. Westerly winds will reach gale force at times with strong gusts particularly along Atlantic coasts.
But now of course we are in the Bubble-wrap Times where we have to be kept safe. We must all be protected against the nasty weather and what better way than to say scary things about it?
Met Éireann issues advisory for potentially ‘multi-hazard and disruptive event’ from Thursday night
Multi-hazard? Wow! Disruptive? Well Holy God!
And of course so the snowflakes can tweet from under the safety of their blankets, the winds have to be given a name. “Storm Dudley” is arriving today followed by “Storm Eunice” on Friday.. Now the Twiterati can blame Dudley for blowing away their trampoline and Eunice for toppling the garden table.
So we have all been warned to stay at home because the Big Bad Wind might hurt us. There is a “status Yellow Alert” nationwide just to strike fear into the nation.
Apparently there is a threat of some snow on Friday? I wonder how soon that will be upgraded to a blizzard?
Yup.
There’s a bit of a wind out there all right and it’s raining a bit
I’d better let the dog in?
It’s always the same with leftists.
Everyone must be kept safe. Until the moment the Leftists turn and then all safety and support is completely gone.
Witness the left relentlessly poking Vladimir Putin at the moment…
What I can’t work out is the thinking behind naming storms. Is it to give them some kind of gravitas [i.e. be very afraid] or is it to make them all cute and cuddly?
I think it’s just copying the Americans who have done this for more years then I can remember
They’ve not yet named any storms as ‘Abdul’, ‘Bashir’, ‘Mohammed’, ‘Khan’ or others of the most popular current birth-names. Funny that.
Anyone saying ‘Stay safe’ to me gets asked; “I’m perfectly safe thank you. What makes you think I’m not?”
I see you’re in for a dose of the white stuff on Friday? Stay safe.
‘Stay sane’ is my reply.
Bill, one of my favorites is “be careful”. As Sheldon Cooper once replied, “If I wasn’t going to be careful; you’re telling me to be careful would not make me careful.”
Grandad, I’d bet it was Storm Dudley that moved your bird feeding table.
I think the naming has to do with making weather scarier, in support of the CLIMATE EMERGENCY ™ narrative, so we are probably stuck with that. We might however push back a bit by choosing the names from those of childhood pets: Storm Tiddles, Storm Fluffy ?
PS: “Stay Safe!” is in the form of an imperative, a command. I’ve always preferred to use my own judgement, so I’m only safe some of the time 😉
Some years ago I used to read a blog titled “The Whited Sepulchre” (thewhitedsepulchre.blogspot.com). In the ways of some things on t’interwebs, it is still there, untouched since 2015. The final post was “The Last Blog Post – Don’t Be Safe”. Still worth a read…
Penny’s out.
That will be a yellow snow warning then.
The Storm naming thing is just so they can claim the next “Weebitohabreeze” is the blowiest Storm since records belong.