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Female-Named Hurricanes Kill More Than Male Hurricanes Because People Don’t Respect Them, Study Says
Washington Post ^
| June 2
| Jason Samenow
Posted on 06/03/2014 12:11:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Hurricane gender discrimmination.
To: nickcarraway
And how much did THIS study cost the taxpayers?
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:12:35 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: nickcarraway
So... let’s give the feminine names to the weaker storms. They won’t bitch about THAT, will they ?
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:12:46 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: nickcarraway
The Washington Post must, had to have, gotten punked into running this obvious satire as a straight story.
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:13:08 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:13:23 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
To: nickcarraway
(The study excluded Katrina and Audrey, outlier storms that would skew the model).Hmmmm.
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:14:10 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: nickcarraway
Didn’t all hurricanes have female names at one time?
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:14:13 PM PDT
by
rllngrk33
(Things will continue getting worse until at least January 2017.)
To: nickcarraway
I think it was Jay Leno who suggested giving then names like Frankenstein or Godzilla.
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:15:20 PM PDT
by
MNDude
To: nickcarraway
Two universities that are nowhere near the ocean spent money to study this? No wonder they came up with such stupid conclusions-unless this is a joke...
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:15:59 PM PDT
by
Texan5
("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
To: nickcarraway
I wish I didn’t see this. Someone paid for the study. Unbelievable that people believe water KNOWS something.
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:17:00 PM PDT
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
To: nickcarraway
And up until 8 or so years ago, all hurricanes had female names. This sounds like feminist inspired bogus research. Or someone’s idea to get paid to produce useless statistics on the taxpayers dime.
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:17:19 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:17:45 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: nickcarraway
You have got to be kidding me.
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:17:57 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: nickcarraway
Researchers at the University of Illinois and Arizona State University examined six decades of hurricane death rates according to gender, spanning 1950 and 2012. Of the 47 most damaging hurricanes, the female-named hurricanes produced an average of 45 deaths compared to 23 deaths in male-named storms,All Hurricanes had Female names from 1950 to around 1980. Most of the Female Hurricanes were before we even had satellite warning systems.
I can't believe they actually published this report.
How many tax dollars did they give these idiots?
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:18:01 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
To: nickcarraway
We need another study to determine if certain female names convey more of a sense of danger. For example would a hurricane named Susie concern people less than a hurricane named Hagatha? Once they go through all the possible names they can assign a threat conveyance number. /sarc
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:18:17 PM PDT
by
meatloaf
(Impeach Obama. That's my New Year's resolution.)
To: rllngrk33
Didnt all hurricanes have female names at one time?Yes and the Feminists demanded that males names be included because they didn't like disasters being associated with the Female Gender.
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:19:53 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
To: MNDude
“I think it was Jay Leno who suggested giving then names like Frankenstein or Godzilla.”
Or Michelle
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:21:29 PM PDT
by
TRY ONE
(I never got the memo on changing 'Global Warming' to 'Climate Change'!)
To: rllngrk33
Yes! They didn’t start naming storms with male names until 1978!
And, why did they not include Katrina? These were outliers because they WANTED the results which they got!
If they included those two storms which the purposefully left out, these numbers would be pretty damn close to the same - what do you want to bet?
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:23:52 PM PDT
by
ExTxMarine
(PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
To: nickcarraway
This is sexist. Someone should forward to NARAL.
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posted on
06/03/2014 12:25:55 PM PDT
by
Tenacious 1
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