Don't know how I missed it, but the 2008 Hurricane Name List blew in under my radar - until I got the following message from a keen-eyed reader:

Forgive me if you've already noticed this about the list ...but Hurricane Nana?  How are we going to explain to little Johnnie that it was not his grandmother who wiped out that city?

She's right. If we get 14 named storms in the Atlantic this year we'll actually be tracking a monster called Hurricane Nana. (You can almost smell the rose water...)

Seems to me officials have trouble enough getting folks to evacuate when a hurricane is bearing down, without giving them lovable names.

No one's going to leave when they hear that Nana's coming to town. Or Dolly. Or Teddy. Or Vicky.

Take a look at the 2008 Atlantic storm monikers. See if any intimidate you:

Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gustav, Hanna, Ike, Josephine, Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paloma, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky and Wilfred.

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