Just as thread title asks. Can you enlighten me why give human name to something so disastrous? Do people named like the hurricane are feeling guilty? Do others treat them with disrespect? Do the current name for a hurricane has to do anything with the most popular name of the month or the quarter or the year?
Do hurricanes have to be anthropomorphised? Can't they be named other way? What a point is to say "Kathrina has devastated New Orleans". Will she be served capital punishment for this terrible deed? Or Sandy... Does she really hates NYC so she decided to destroy it too? Will there be links uncovered connecting Sandy with Iran?
How about naming hurricanes after countries or foreign cities? Great newspapers topics! And what a thrill!
orPoland has devastated Washington D.C.!
Tel Aviv has wiped out Miami!