# Tropical Storm Alpha

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-alpha/327456>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 22, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-alpha/327456 "2005-10-22T21:13:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-alpha/327456/1 "2005-10-22T21:13:25Z")

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It’s official, according to CNN. They;'ve rolled the odometer of hurricane names, and now tropical storm Alpha is breeding in the Atlantic.

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**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-alpha/327456/2 "2005-10-22T22:19:27Z")

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Hmmm…I wonder what would happen if they ran out of greek letters (not that I see that happening this year, just curious).

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-alpha/327456/3 "2005-10-22T22:23:00Z")

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La la la la I can’t hear you I’m trying to get through Wilma la la la la la…

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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-alpha/327456/4 "2005-10-22T22:26:15Z")

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> [@ivylass](#):
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> La la la la I can’t hear you I’m trying to get through Wilma la la la la la…

Are you [running Haiti](http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/10_22_5.html) by any chance? 😉

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-alpha/327456/5 "2005-10-23T04:15:38Z")

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What’s going on here?

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-alpha/327456/6 "2005-10-23T07:15:11Z")

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> [@uglybeech](#):
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> Hmmm…I wonder what would happen if they ran out of greek letters (not that I see that happening this year, just curious).

[ul]  
[li]Finally declare the American Gulf Coast a No-Live Zone.[/li][li]Sell underground bunkers to the residents of the Caribbean islands.[/li][li]Offer Fred Phelps, Pat Buchanan, and Jerry Falwell to the angry Storm Gods by way of chaining them to Epcot Center.[/li][/ul]

More seriously, they’d probably move on to the Hebrew alphabet. Then there’s Arabic, Sanskrit, Norse runes, and a few East Asian and Native American syllabaries.

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropical-storm-alpha/327456/7 "2005-10-23T09:50:01Z")

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> [@uglybeech](#):
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> Hmmm…I wonder what would happen if they ran out of greek letters (not that I see that happening this year, just curious).

By the time that happens, I hope to be halfway to Mars.

So, I guess we’ll never get to have a Hurricane Xerxes, then. Darn. ☹