justplainbil

Just Plain Bill

The tropical storm named ‘Bill’…

It’s interesting that the naming of tropical storms has never been of much importance to me… hearing the names and promptly forgetting them, likely because I’ve never lived in areas where these storms caused serious problems.

That is until the latest “tropical depression” of June 2015 named “Bill”, which happened to bring damage to a friend of mine in Texas. I responded to her Facebook post that declared, “Bill is not welcome here”, referring to the storm that had uprooted a large tree in her front yard. She sent it to me in jest and I got quite a chuckle, but this caused me to check back in the record of storm names through the years, where I discovered that a different “Bill” caused widespread damage in June 2003 – yet was barely a blip on my radar.

I’ll probably go back to my casual recognition of names given to storms and tropical depressions. After all, life’s been good and storm free!

I wish the same for each of you, and especially for my friend in Texas!