I had the gross misfortune of turning on the televised local news last night. There were a couple of ten second previews of what was going to appear on the news the next night. I never quite understand how New York News programs always seem to have the news for tomorrow, today. If I knew what they know, I could retire.
So Thursday night into Friday of this week New York City is expecting the mother of all snow storms. The headline was "Hurricane snow storm" expected in the Metropolitan area. I feel terribly sorry for this hurricane. It is an unnamed anonymous storm. It is worthy of pre storm headlines but not important enough to name it like all the other storms that pass over the shores of this great country i.e.: Katrina and Hugo. It will eventually be known as "The Late February 2010 Storm" or the " North East Hurricane Snow Storm." This future storm would be remembered better if it had a name so I am suggesting "Hurricane Snow Storm Fiona." The F in Fiona is for ferocious, for fierce, for feisty and for fictitious. It is named after an ex girlfriend of mine Fiona who was all of the above. And judging by the weathermen's previous predictions in 2010 for Manhattan snow accumulation it would be named correctly
They never get named in the UK but them we hardly ever get them. The last one we had is just known as the Hurricane. By the way from your description some tales about Fiona may be Fantastically Favourably Fun Filled For all!
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