The 2008 thread about the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season

[Fig]

Not to be confused with the 2008 thread about the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which will be posted when there's actual stuff to say about the 2008 Hurricane season.
Or with the perfectly serviceable 2007 thread about the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Well, perfectly serviceable until SOMEONE decided to close it.
Nor with the 2009 thread about the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which will doubtlessly have to be made next spring should there be any retirement this year.

Not to be confused with a thread that has a significant reason to exist, either. The only reason this thread exist is because apparently, the concept that a thread about events in 2007 could potentially receive relevant new information in spring 2008 is a VERY complicated mathematical theorem that only the chosen few can actually grasp. Much like meteorological models.

Anyway. As I was saying in the other thread BEFORE somebody failed at seeing how a post about which names were retired as a result of the 2007 Hurricane season would belong in a thread about the 2007 Hurricane season...

The World Meteorological Organization has recently announced which storm names would be retired as a result of the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season.

Dean, Felix and Noel have been retired, and will not be used again as names for hurricanes. They will be replaced by Dorian, Fernand and Nestor starting with the 2013 season.

Both Dean and Felix were hurricanes that rapidly accelerated to category 5 and made landfall at that strength - a rare event in and of itself.

Noel was barely a category 1 hurricane, but made landfall in Haiti where it killed over 160 people, becoming the most lethal hurricane of the season.

 

[the gadfly]

Well, perfectly serviceable until SOMEONE decided to close it.

That would be me.

Anyway. As I was saying in the other thread BEFORE somebody failed at seeing how a post about which names were retired as a result of the 2007 Hurricane season would belong in a thread about the 2007 Hurricane season...

Then how do you explain this quote from the 2007 thread?

Well, time to resurect this thread to close the story on the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season....

The WMO announced a few days ago the hurricane names list change resulting from the 2007 season.

We may now say farewell to DEAN, FELIX and NOEL who will be joining Katrina, Andrew, Ivan and the others in the Great Hurricane Names List in the sky.

They will be replaced from 2013 onward by Dorian, Fernand and Nestor.

Seems to me you closed the thread and I made it official.

 

[Fig]

...you know, not every reference to "closing a story" means the thread should be closed.

People may have had a comment to make on the thread. Or further news could have come up later - just because I THINK the story is closed doesn't mean it really is!

It's not like I'm the Omniscient God Almighty.

 

[the gadfly]

People may have had a comment to make on the thread.

Considering you made the last 5 posts since 12/12/07, I doubt it.

Hmm. The first post of the 2007 thread was 5/7/2007. Today is 5/14/2008. Time to move on to 2008.

 

[Zak]

Considering you made the last 5 posts since 12/12/07, I doubt it.

Fortunately not everyone is like you who blindly bases everything on numbers.

Hmm. The first post of the 2007 thread was 5/7/2007. Today is 5/14/2008. Time to move on to 2008.

Usually threads with ongoing news get bumped, if they're contributing something worthwhile. You think people won't care because of a mere date? Get real, maybe if you looked at the post itself and not blindly at the numbers then you'd probably realize why everyone always gets on your case (if you're not too stubborn to take a look at it).

In that last part once again you prove to act before you think. Yeah, the posts are a year apart, so... if there hasn't been anything in 2008, AND next to that Dami was talking about the 2007 season anyway, why start a new thread? What's the point? It'd just be a waste of space and a lie.

 

[the gadfly]

Ah yes, the dynamic duo teams up against me again.

Fortunately not everyone is like you who blindly bases everything on numbers.

Not everyone blindly ignores the fact that Dami made the last 5 posts in a thread that lost its steam ago.

Usually threads with ongoing news get bumped, if they're contributing something worthwhile.

Yeah, Dami bumped the thread 5 times. Nobody else cared enough to reply. Is it news? He should have gotten infractions for double-posting.

You think people won't care because of a mere date?

I just have to look at when the posts were made. No posts in months, no need to keep a thread open.

Get real, maybe if you looked at the post itself and not blindly at the numbers then you'd probably realize why everyone always gets on your case (if you're not too stubborn to take a look at it).

Please tell me who else gets on my case besides you and Dami.

In that last part once again you prove to act before you think.

Let me see. The last 5 posts in the 2007 thread since 12/12/07 were from Dami. Prior to his last post, Dami last posted 12/29/07. Five months until his next post. Yeah, looks like that thread got lots of activity.

So, what was that about acting without thinking? Especially when Dami said

Well, time to resurect this thread to close the story on the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season....

I just made it official after Dami wrapped up things with the new storm names.

 

[Kasumi]

Close the story is NOT the same as closing a thread other people might as well post their thoughts about the end of the 2007 hurrican season. And since this has deviated into a pointless debate, I'm closing this one and reoppening the 2007 thread.

Feel free to post a 2008 Hurrican Season discussion thread if you will, Dami.