OK it's official, ALPHA is the 22nd named storm

[tocqueville]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT5+shtml/222102.shtml

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WTNT35 KNHC 222102
TCPAT5
BULLETIN
TROPICAL STORM ALPHA ADVISORY NUMBER 2
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 PM EDT SAT OCT 22 2005

...ALPHA BECOMES THE TWENTY-SECOND NAMED STORM OF THE SEASON AND
BREAKS THE ALL-TIME RECORD FOR THE MOST ACTIVE SEASON ON RECORD...

AT 5 PM EDT...THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC HAS ISSUED A
TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR THE ENTIRE NORTHERN COAST. A TROPICAL
STORM WARNING IS NOW IF EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE COASTLINE OF THE
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.

AT 5 PM EDT...THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BAHAMAS HAS UPGRADED THE
TROPICAL STORM WATCH TO A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR THE
SOUTHEASTERN BAHAMAS...AND FOR THE TURKS AND CAICOS.

A TROPICAL STROM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE COASTLINE
OF HAITI.

.....

[pscot]

1. What happened to Xavier

Yentl and Zelda?

[sakabatou]

2. Yentl is still in the rabinicle school of learning

and zelda is still of need of being saved by link.

[Ksec]

3. My Mother thinks

all the disasters are a sign of the end times.

Shes always been a religious woman and she says the Bible speaks of this. Storms becoming stronger, earthquakes more severe, tsunamis killing hundreds of thousands etc.

[Walt Starr]

4. There have been terrible natural disasters as long as there has been an

earth.

The only difference between now and 2000 years ago is we have instantaneus communication globally, so we know about all of them.

Nomadic goatherds fromtwo millenia ago would never know about tsunamis on the other side of the planet

[npincus]

5. No shit? ANOTHER one?