Hurricane Wolfie

Something became obvious when baby Wolfie became a strong enough to stand on his own: my son is a force of chaos. He just takes stuff away from drawers, DVDs off the shelves, he throws books off the shelves, toys off the boxes, you should just see the look of our living room when he feels energetic. Sometimes I wonder if it worth tidying up. I might take a picture for the blog one day. I said yesterday on Facebook: "If they are looking for a name for the next hurricane, I suggest Wolfie." I think it deserves to be a new great unknown line.

Quand la Bête se rapproche

Je viens de lire cet article sur l'ouragan Irene qui se rapproche de New York, assez pour que certains citoyens soient évacués. New York, ce n'est pas très loin du Québec. À l'échelle planétaire, la distance est minuscule. Je ne peux m'empêcher de penser à une autre bête, du volcan islandais au nom imprononçable qui m'a laissé sur le plancher des vaches en avril 2010. On se croit bien loin des tempêtes tropicales et des autres catastrophes naturelles, alors que l'on peut les subir comme partout ailleurs. Je le sais, j'ai personnellement vécu quelques tremblements de terre, dont un majeur, une innondation majeure et une tempête de verglas. Un ouragan, ce ne serait malheureusement pas si incongru.

Giving a name to a hurricane

My blogging friends Wendy the (Very Good) Witch and Peeking Through an Open Window live in Florida, where of course they might see/feel Hurricane Irene. I feel for them: I lived my share of nature's manifestations of force (one ice storm, one important earthquake and one flood) and it's not funny. Although I have never been through a hurricane, some of the leftovers from hurricanes down in the South have touched Quebec from time to time, giving us heavy rains.

Hurricanes are given male and female names, in alphabetical order. I find it a bit boring and unimaginative. We do not give planets and constellations names such as Joey and Martha, we don't give such names to volcanoes either, why hurricanes? I asked an "existential question" on this blog about it once: what name to give a hurricane? My own suggestion was, I think, an interesting one: why not give one the name Tiresias? It has the right gravitas, being from Greek mythology. Since Tiresias was transgender, that would make for an interesting change in the male/female order.

Question existentielle (36)

Elle m'est venue je ne sais pas trop pourquoi:

-Quel nom donneriez-vous à un ouragan?