Rant #1,983: Ride Like the Wind With the Name Game

OK, so we have two more hurricanes to worry about.

Hurricane Jose is supposed to not hit land, but to possibly effect the northeast with winds and rain, all starting tomorrow.

Hurricane Maria is targeted as a major hurricane, and will most probably hit the already devastated Caribbean later this week.

Haven't we had enough of these hurricanes already?

And hurricane season has several more weeks to go, so here are the remaining names for what are called "The Atlantic Tropical (and Subtropical) Storm" names for 2017, starting with the letter "N":

Nate.

Ophelia.

Philippe.

Rina.

Sean.

Tammy.

Vince.

Whitney.

There are no storm names for "Q, "U," "X," "Y"  and "Z" for whatever reason.

I guess there are a lack of common names to use for those letters, so they are simply skipped.

Hurricanes Quentin, Ursula, Xena, Yolanda and Zachary? I don't remember them.

Nor do I remember Hurricane Don (pictured), but it was one of the names used during the current 2017 season.

Evidently, there was some controversy in using that name, because some felt that it was used in a negative manner related to our President, Donald Trump.

But representatives of the National Hurricane Center said it had nothing to do with the President; it was simply a coincidence, as the name was chosen years earlier as the "D" representative for this year.

Some news outlets, including the Associated Press, nonetheless poked fun at the use of the name for a hurricane (even though I don't think it was fierce enough to be one, and only amounted to a tropical storm), but everyone would agree that Hurricane Don was happily a big nothing, and no one will remember it (no jokes now).

Anyway, since this has been a huge hurricane season in this part of the world, what happens if we have more than eight new hurricanes come up between now and the end of the hurricane season in November as far as names are concerned?

I have no idea if maybe they do go into "Q," "U," "X," "Y"  and "Z" or they simply start over with "A."

Let's hope that we don't have to deal with such problems, because the "A-W" (less Q and U) hurricanes have wreaked enough havoc themselves.