I never realized that hurricanes were named as they started to form. It confused me as a kid when hurricane Gloria was coming - how did they know it was Gloria? Was there a certain way the wind blew that determined it was Gloria and not, say Andrew?
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- My brother once convinced me that the wind was "leftover hurricanes"— Tufty the Squirrel
- When I was a child and the wind blew strong I used to believe that someone was hiding under the bed.— FER
- I used to believe that trees made the wind, but its the wind that blew the trees!— victoria
- I thought rain was made when God was crying, and wind when God blew on the earth because it was too hot.— Andy T
- I thought Hurricane Dennis (in 2005) and the character Dennis from the Spongebob movie were related somehow.Anon
- That only men farted. I literally started sobbing the first time I realized I farted.Anon