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Talk:1521: Sword in the Stone

2015-05-06T16:56:42Z

173.245.52.105:

In Arthurian legend, whoever can remove the Sword in the Stone is the lawful king of England. Arthur is an orphan being raised in secret; he notices the sword, removes it, and is proclaimed king. The sword is sometimes identified as Excalibur, although in other versions Excalibur was acquired by King Arthur from the Lady of the Lake. The most familiar version of this story is ''The Sword in the Stone'' by T. H. White which is based on ''Le Mort d'Arthur'' by Sir Thomas Malory. Having a woman remove the sword would introduce difficulties. [[User:The Dining Logician|The Dining Logician]] ([[User talk:The Dining Logician|talk]]) 06:12, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Seriously? Megan being transgender is preposterous. The comic mentions a throne, not a king. The proposition that the character needs to be a man is far fetched and a bit sexist. The legend usually mentions a ruler, not a kind per se. Even if it were a king, that is a baseless statement. Legends are up to interpretation. If a woman pulls out a sword it is possible that she be crowned Queen without having a king. Case in point, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria -of England; they both have seen the glory days of Britain. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.152|108.162.221.152]] 07:27, 6 May 2015 (UTC)BK201

: And there was {{w|Jadwiga of Poland}}, female who was crowned '''king'''. --[[User:JakubNarebski|JakubNarebski]] ([[User talk:JakubNarebski|talk]]) 07:33, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

: It's clearly Megan. Perhaps Aurthur has returned in female form (definitely not transgender), but it's unmistakably Megan. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 13:01, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
::Agreed. Why should she even represent Arthur. Anyone who could take the sword out would get the throne. I think the explanation should say it is Megan and that she has taken the role Arthur had once. Also the idea that the new princess can get the throne even if she has younger brothers may be important here as written by another user below. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 16:01, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

In a visual novel, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saber_(Fate/stay_night) King Arthur is a girl]. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.222.169|108.162.222.169]] 08:06, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Should be lawful king of Britain. King Arthur was fighting against the English. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.66|141.101.98.66]] 08:30, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

If there were a real Arthur (dux bellorum or whatever) this is true, however in the legends things are much more complicated and inconsistent, so England is as good as anything else. -richardelguru

Minor point, but Vallum Aelium was built to control the Picti, the Scots of the Dál Riata came much later and Scotland (Rìoghachd na h-Alba) is traditionally founded in the late C9CE. -richardelguru

I doubt it's a coincidence that this comic was published the day before a UK general election that is widely predicted to be heading for the most complicated hung parliament in history. The monarch is a purely ceremonial head of state in practically all respects, but does (in theory) have the responsibility to "ask" someone to form a government (in practice, the person asked is determined by who holds the parliamentary majority, but there are huge arguments raging about who will "legitimately" hold such a majority, the leader of the party with most seats or the leader who can rustle up the biggest coalition). [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.24|141.101.99.24]] 09:11, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

: I agree that this is a much more likely explanation for the timing of the comic. Don't have time to change the text myself right now ... --[[User:RenniePet|RenniePet]] ([[User talk:RenniePet|talk]]) 10:51, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

The punchline could also be about how it would be way too much hassle to try to lay claim to the throne in modern times, challenging the British royal family and all - Megan would probably be treated like a lunatic. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.88.223|141.101.88.223]] 11:19, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Arthur is a long haired boy [http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/lemondededisney/images/4/47/Moustique.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130715192648&path-prefix=fr], [http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51US9KARtXL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg]. The comic shows a boy, not a woman. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.201|108.162.221.201]] 12:56, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
: The original Arthur is certainly a boy, however this comic is in the xkcd universe and in modern times, so if it looks like Megan, it's Megan. There's nothing in the comic itself that hints at the gender of the character. [[User:N0lqu|-boB]] ([[User talk:N0lqu|talk]]) 14:43, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

I just thought that the joke was how distracting Wikipedia can be and that Megan/Arthur here gets addicted to reading Wikipedia articles of even the most obvious things in the least appropriate moment. "Oh cool, the throne of England? Isn't that that European country. Let's see how big it is. Oh, wow, 120,000 square kilometers. What's that in miles? Hmm, alright. Huh, kilometres is spelled like this according to the international spelling? What is that?" etc etc, you get the idea :p [[User:Maplestrip|Maplestrip]] ([[User talk:Maplestrip|talk]]) 12:59, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

: The title text would seem to go against that explanation.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.24|141.101.99.24]] 13:21, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

It's Megan. The new princess is the first woman who can inherent the throne without being leapfrogged by younger brothers. Before the Succession to the Crown Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_to_the_Crown_Act_2013) if Megan had pulled the sword out one of her brothers would have gotten to be King. (signed by jan)
: This and the election tomorrow seems like the main reason for this comic. Forget Arthur for anything else than explaining the idea with the sword.--[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 16:01, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

She put it back because she discovered this country is a shithole. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.143|141.101.98.143]] 14:23, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

I think it's Megan. - [[User:RecentlyChanged|RecentlyChanged]] ([[User talk:RecentlyChanged|talk]])

I removed the reference to Megan becoming "heir to" the throne, as that implies she is next in line, rather than immediately ascending to the throne [[User:Miamiclay|Miamiclay]] ([[User talk:Miamiclay|talk]]) 16:40, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

My peronal take: Megan could technically abdicate the throne, letting it return to status quo or having the next-in-line take the turn. That way, Megan can keep {{w|Excalibur}} while not having to worry about ruling the country. --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.105|173.245.52.105]] 16:56, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

1407: Worst Hurricane

2015-05-01T01:02:05Z

173.245.52.105: /* Listed hurricanes */

{{comic
| number = 1407
| date = August 13, 2014
| title = Worst Hurricane
| image = worst_hurricane.png
| titletext = 'Finding a 105-year-old who's lived in each location and asking them which hurricane they think was the worst' is left as an exercise for the reader.
}}

This comic has a [http://xkcd.com/1407/large/ larger version] available.

==Explanation==

The map divides America's Atlantic coastline into regions according to the worst hurricane that has hit each area in the last century, based on data from the North Atlantic hurricane database ({{w|HURDAT}}) to determine the severity and the {{w|National Centers for Enrvironmental Prediction}}'s (NCEP) rainfall to determin where the hurricane was present. Most of the hurricanes are listed by their US reporting names, with hurricanes before 1953 (the year when the current naming system was established) being listed by their year and sometimes a sequence number or city name.

The title text is a joke in light of this bleak humor, saying that finding residents in each of the regions who are old enough to have been alive through all of these is quite a daunting task. In principle, this would be the only way to confirm the "worst hurricane in living memory," and may be taken as a riposte to anyone who wishes to argue this map: "If you think there was a worse one, find a 105 year old resident who agrees!" 105 was likely chosen because most people can only remember back to an age when they were 5, so someone would have needed to be 5 years old to remember a hurricane in any detail 100 years later.

Hurricanes and especially their names have been featured before in comics [[453: Upcoming Hurricanes]], [[944: Hurricane Names]] and [[1126: Epsilon and Zeta]].

===Listed hurricanes===
A full list of North Atlantic hurricanes after {{w|Tropical cyclone naming}} was introduced can be found {{w|List_of_historic_tropical_cyclone_names#North_Atlantic|here}}.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Date
!Name
!States
!Highest winds
!Lowest pressure
!Casualties
(Est. total)
!Damage estimate
(USD; uninflated)
|-
|rowspan="2"|1915
||{{w|1915_Galveston_hurricane|Galveston}}
||LA TX OK AR
||145 mph
||940 mbar
||400
||$50 million
|-
||{{w|1915_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1915 VI}}
||LA MS AL TN KY WV PA
||145 mph
||931 mbar
||275
||$13 million
|-
|rowspan="2"|1916
||{{w|1916_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Four|1916 IV}}
||SC NC
||115 mph
||960 mbar
||7
||$100,000
|-
||{{w|1916_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1916 VI}}
||TX
||135 mph
||932 mbar
||15
||$1.8 million
|-
||1918
||{{w|1918_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_One|1918 I}}
||LA
||120 mph
||955 mbar
||34
||$5 million
|-
||1921
||{{w|1921_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1921 VI}}
||FL
||140 mph
||941 mbar
||6
||$3 million
|-
|rowspan="4"|1926
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_One|1926 I}}
||FL
||140 mph
||967 mbar
||<287
||$16,401,000
|-
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Two|1926 II}}
||GA
||140 mph
||967 mbar
||unknown
||unreported
|-
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Three|1926 III}}
||TX LA AL
||115 mph
||955 mbar
||25
||$6million
|-
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Seven|1926 VII}}
||FL AL MS LA
||150 mph
||930 mbar
||478
||$22 billion
|-
||1928
||{{w|1928_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Four|1928 IV}}
||FL SC NC
||160 mph
||≤ 929 mbar
||<4,078
||$100 million
|-
||1932
||{{w|1932_Freeport_hurricane|Freeport}}
||TX
||150 mph
||935 mbar
||40
||$7.5 million
|-
||1933
||{{w|1933_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1933 VI}}
||NC VA MD PA
||140 mph
||940 mbar
||31
||$27 million
|-
||1935
||{{w|1935_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Three|1935 III}}
||FL
||185 mph
||892 mbar
||<400
||unreported
|-
||1938
||{{w|1938_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1938 VI}}
||NY CT
||160 mph
||940 mbar
||682
||$300 million
|-
||1940
||{{w|1940_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Three|1940 III}}
||SC NC
||100 mph
||972 mbar
||50
||$13 million
|-
||1941
||{{w|1941_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Two|1941 II}}
||LA TX
||125 mph
||942 mbar
||4
||$7 million
|-
||1942
||{{w|1942_Matagorda_hurricane|Matagorda}}
||TX NM OK
||115 mph
||950 mbar
||8
||$26.5 million
|-
|rowspan="2"|1944
||{{w|1944_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Seven|1944 VII}}
||NY NC to CT
||145 mph
||933 mbar
||390
||<$100 million
|-
||{{w|1944_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Thirteen|1944 XII}}
||FL
||145 mph
||937 mbar
||300
||$100 million
|-
||1946
||{{w|1946_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1946 VI}}
||FL NC
||100 mph
||977 mbar
||5 (in Cuba)
||$5.2 million
|-
||1947
||{{w|1947_Cape_Sable_hurricane|King}}
||FL GA SN NC
||105 mph
||965 mbar
||1
||$20 million
|-
||1949
||{{w|1949_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Two|1949 II}}
||FL GA to NH
||130 mph
||954 mbar
||2
||$52 million
|-
||1950
||{{w|Hurricane_Easy_(1950)|Easy}}
||FL GA AK
||125 mph
||958 mbar
||2
||$3.3 million
|-
|rowspan="3"|1954
||{{w|Hurricane_Carol|Carol}}
||NY CT NH NC MA VA DC DE NJ
||115 mph
||957 mbar
||72
||$462 million
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Edna|Edna}}
||NY VA NC NJ MA ME NH
||120 mph
||≤ 954 mbar
||29
||>$42.8 million
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Hazel|Hazel}}
||NC VA WV MD DE NY PA NJ DC
||150 mph
||≤ 937 mbar
||1,000-1,200
||$420 million
|-
|rowspan="2"|1955
||{{w|Hurricane_Connie|Connie}}
||NC SC VA DC MD MI PA NJ NY
||145 mph
||936 mbar
||74
||<$86 million
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Diane|Diane}}
||PA NJ NY NC WV MA RI VT
||120 mph
||≤ 969 mbar
||≥184
||$754.7 million
|-
||1957
||{{w|Hurricane_Audrey|Audrey}}
||TX FL LA MS AL MI MO IL NY PA VT ME
||145 mph
||945 mbar
||<416
||$147 million
|-
||1958
||{{w|Hurricane_Helene_(1958)|Helene}}
||SC to ME
||135 mph
||934 mbar
||1
||$11.4 million
|-
||1959
||{{w|Hurricane_Gracie|Gracie}}
||SC GA VA PA
||140 mph
||950 mbar
||22
||$14 million
|-
||1960
||{{w|Hurricane_Donna|Donna}}
||FL GA SC NC VA MD PA NJ NY CT MA VT NH
||160 mph
||932 mbar
||164-364
||$900 million
|-
|rowspan="2"|1961
||{{w|Hurricane_Carla|Carla}}
||TX LA OK IL FL NE MO MI WI IN AL AK MS IA
||175 mph
||931 mbar
||43
||$325.74 million
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Esther_(1961)|Esther}}
||NC VA MD DE NJ NY CT MA NH
||145 mph
||927 mbar
||7
||$6 million
|-
|rowspan="2"|1964
||{{w|Hurricane_Dora|Dora}}
||FL
||130 mph
||942 mbar
||5
||$250 million
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Hilda|Hilda}}
||FL TX LA GA MS NC SC AL TN VA MD DE
||150 mph
||941 mbar
||38
||$126 million
|-
||1965
||{{w|Hurricane_Betsy|Betsy}}
||FL LA MS AR TE MO
||155 mph
||941 mbar
||81
||$1.42 billion
|-
||1966
||{{w|Hurricane_Alma_(1966)|Alma}}
||FL (up to FL/GA border)
||125 mph
||970 mbar
||91
||$210.1 million
|-
||1967
||{{w|Hurricane_Beulah|Beulah}}
||TX
||160 mph
||≤ 923 mbar
||688
||$1 billion
|-
||1969
||{{w|Hurricane_Camille|Camille}}
||AS MS LA
||175 mph
||900 mbar
||259
||$1.42 billion
|-
||1970
||{{w|Hurricane_Celia|Celia}}
||FL TX
||125 mph
||945 mbar
||28
||$930 million
|-
||1972
||{{w|Hurricane_Agnes|Agnes}}
||FL GA NC VA MD PA NY
||85 mph
||977 mbar
||128
||$2.1 billion
|-
||1974
||{{w|Hurricane_Carmen|Carmen}}
||LA TX
||150 mph
||928 mbar
||8
||$162 million
|-
||1975
||{{w|Hurricane_Eloise|Eloise}}
||FL
||125 mph
||955 mbar
||80
||$560 million
|-
|rowspan="2"|1979
||{{w|Hurricane_David|David}}
||FL
||175 mph
||924 mbar
||<2,068
||$1.54 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Frederic|Frederic}}
||FL AS MS
||135 mph
||943 mbar
||14
||$2.3 billion
|-
||1980
||{{w|Hurricane_Allen|Allen}}
||TX
||190 mph
||899 mbar
||269
||$1.24 billion
|-
||1984
||{{w|Hurricane_Diana_(1984)|Diana}}
||FL SC NC
||130 mph
||949 mbar
||3
||$65.5 million
|-
|rowspan="3"|1985
||{{w|Hurricane_Elena|Elena}}
||FL AL MS LA AR KY
||125 mph
||953 mbar
||9
||$1.3 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Gloria|Gloria}}
||NC VA MD DE NJ NY MA ME CT RI NH ME
||145 mph
||919 mbar
||14
||$900 million
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Kate_(1985)|Kate}}
||Fl GA
||120 mph
||954 mbar
||15
||$700 million
|-
||1989
||{{w|Hurricane_Hugo|Hugo}}
||SC NC VA WV OH VI
||160 mph
||918 mbar
||±107
||$10 billion
|-
||1991
||{{w|Hurricane_Bob|Bob}}
||NC ME MA NH VT RI CT
||115 mph
||950 mbar
||17
||$1.5 billion
|-
||1992
||{{w|Hurricane_Andrew|Andrew}}
||FL LA
||175 mph
||922 mbar
||65
||$26.5 billion
|-
||1995
||{{w|Hurricane_Opal|Opal}}
||AL FL GA
||150 mph
||916 mbar
||63
||$5.1 billion
|-
||1996
||{{w|Hurricane_Fran|Fran}}
||SC NC VA WV MD PA
||120 mph
||946 mbar
||27
||$3.2 billion
|-
||1998
||{{w|Hurricane_Bonnie_(1998)|Bonnie}}
||NC
||115 mph
||954 mbar
||5
||$1 billion
|-
||1999
||{{w|Hurricane_Floyd|Floyd}}
||FL to ME
||155 mph
||921 mbar
||77-87
||$6.9 billion
|-
||2002
||{{w|Hurricane_Lili|Lili}}
||LA MS AK
||145 mph
||938 mbar
||15
||$925 million
|-
||2003
||{{w|Hurricane_Isabel|Isabel}}
||NC to PA
||165 mph
||915 mbar
||51
||$5.37 billion
|-
|rowspan="5"|2004
||{{w|Hurricane_Charley|Charley}}
||FL SC NC
||150 mph
||941 mbar
||35
||$16.3 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Frances|Frances}}
||VI PR FL
||145 mph
||935 mbar
||49
||$9 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Gaston_(2004)|Gaston}}
||SC NC VA MD DE MA
||75 mph
||985 mbar
||9
||$130 million
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Ivan|Ivan}}
||AL FL LA TX
||165 mph
||910 mbar
||123
||$18 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Jeanne|Jeanne}}
||VI PR FL
||120 mph
||950 mbar
||<3,035
||$7 billion
|-
|rowspan="3"|2005
||{{w|Hurricane_Dennis|Dennis}}
||Fl Al MS GA TN OH
||150 mph
||930 mbar
||89
||$4 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Katrina|Katrina}}
||FL LA MS AL
||175 mph
||902 mbar
||<1,833
||$108 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Rita|Rita}}
||FL MS LA TX AR MO IL
||180 mph
||895 mbar
||97-125
||$12 billion
|-
|rowspan="2"|2008
||{{w|Hurricane_Gustav|Gustav}}
||PR AL MS LA TX OK AR MO IL MI
||155 mph
||941 mbar
||153
||$6.61 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Ike|Ike}}
||FL OH LA TX MS
||145 mph
||935 mbar
||195
||$37.5 billion
|-
|rowspan="2"|2011
||{{w|Hurricane_Irene|Irene}}
||NC CT NJ NY
||120 mph
||942 mbar
||56
||$16.6 billion
|-
||{{w|Tropical_Storm_Lee_(2011)|Lee}}
||NY PA
||60 mph
||986 mbar
||18
||$1.6 billion
|-
||2012
||{{w|Hurricane_Sandy|Sandy}}
||NJ NY PA MD DE
||115 mph
||940 mbar
||286
||≥ $68 billion
|}

==Transcript==

:What's The
:;Worst Hurricane
:Anyone In Your Town Remembers?
:Estimated from Hurdat Database and NCEP rainfall totals
:1914-2014
:[A map of the east coast of the United States as far southwest as the Texas/Mexico border, as far northeast as the Maine/Canada border, and as far inland as Kentucky. The map has coastal regions blocked out with the name and year of the worst hurricane in the last 100 years.]
===Map===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Date
!Hurricane name
!States (Postcode form)
|-
|rowspan="2"|1915
||{{w|1915_Galveston_hurricane|Galveston}}
||LA TX OK AR
|-
||{{w|1915_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1915 VI}}
||LA MS AL TN KY WV PA
|-
|rowspan="2"|1916
||{{w|1916_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Four|1916 IV}}
||SC NC
|-
||{{w|1916_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1916 VI}}
||TX
|-
||1918
||{{w|1918_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_One|1918 I}}
||LA
|-
||1921
||{{w|1921_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1921 VI}}
||FL
|-
|rowspan="4"|1926
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_One|1926 I}}
||FL
|-
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Two|1926 II}}
||GA
|-
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Three|1926 III}}
||TX LA AL
|-
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Seven|1926 VII}}
||FL AL MS LA
|-
||1928
||{{w|1928_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Four|1928 IV}}
||FL SC NC
|-
||1932
||{{w|1932_Freeport_hurricane|Freeport}}
||TX
|-
||1933
||{{w|1933_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1933 VI}}
||NC VA MD PA
|-
||1935
||{{w|1935_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Three|1935 III}}
||FL
|-
||1938
||{{w|1938_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1938 VI}}
||NY CT
|-
||1940
||{{w|1940_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Three|1940 III}}
||SC NC
|-
||1941
||{{w|1941_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Two|1941 II}}
||LA TX
|-
||1942
||{{w|1942_Matagorda_hurricane|Matagorda}}
||TX NM OK
|-
|rowspan="2"|1944
||{{w|1944_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Seven|1944 VII}}
||NY NC to CT
|-
||{{w|1944_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Thirteen|1944 XII}}
||FL
|-
||1946
||{{w|1946_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1946 VI}}
||FL NC
|-
||1947
||{{w|1947_Cape_Sable_hurricane|King}}
||FL GA SN NC
|-
||1949
||{{w|1949_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Two|1949 II}}
||FL GA to NH
|-
||1950
||{{w|Hurricane_Easy_(1950)|Easy}}
||FL GA AK
|-
|rowspan="3"|1954
||{{w|Hurricane_Carol|Carol}}
||NY CT NH NC MA VA DC DE NJ
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Edna|Edna}}
||NY VA NC NJ MA ME NH
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Hazel|Hazel}}
||NC VA WV MD DE NY PA NJ DC
|-
|rowspan="2"|1955
||{{w|Hurricane_Connie|Connie}}
||NC SC VA DC MD MI PA NJ NY
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Diane|Diane}}
||PA NJ NY NC WV MA RI VT
|-
||1957
||{{w|Hurricane_Audrey|Audrey}}
||TX FL LA MS AL MI MO IL NY PA VT ME
|-
||1958
||{{w|Hurricane_Helene_(1958)|Helene}}
||SC to ME
|-
||1959
||{{w|Hurricane_Gracie|Gracie}}
||SC GA VA PA
|-
||1960
||{{w|Hurricane_Donna|Donna}}
||FL GA SC NC VA MD PA NJ NY CT MA VT NH
|-
|rowspan="2"|1961
||{{w|Hurricane_Carla|Carla}}
||TX LA OK IL FL NE MO MI WI IN AL AK MS IA
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Esther_(1961)|Esther}}
||NC VA MD DE NJ NY CT MA NH
|-
|rowspan="2"|1964
||{{w|Hurricane_Dora|Dora}}
||FL
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Hilda|Hilda}}
||FL TX LA GA MS NC SC AL TN VA MD DE
|-
||1965
||{{w|Hurricane_Betsy|Betsy}}
||FL LA MS AR TE MO
|-
||1966
||{{w|Hurricane_Alma_(1966)|Alma}}
||FL (up to FL/GA border)
|-
||1967
||{{w|Hurricane_Beulah|Beulah}}
||TX
|-
||1969
||{{w|Hurricane_Camille|Camille}}
||AS MS LA
|-
||1970
||{{w|Hurricane_Celia|Celia}}
||FL TX
|-
||1972
||{{w|Hurricane_Agnes|Agnes}}
||FL GA NC VA MD PA NY
|-
||1974
||{{w|Hurricane_Carmen|Carmen}}
||LA TX
|-
||1975
||{{w|Hurricane_Eloise|Eloise}}
||FL
|-
|rowspan="2"|1979
||{{w|Hurricane_David|David}}
||FL
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Frederic|Frederic}}
||FL AS MS
|-
||1980
||{{w|Hurricane_Allen|Allen}}
||TX
|-
||1984
||{{w|Hurricane_Diana_(1984)|Diana}}
||FL SC NC
|-
|rowspan="3"|1985
||{{w|Hurricane_Elena|Elena}}
||FL AL MS LA AR KY
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Gloria|Gloria}}
||NC VA MD DE NJ NY MA ME CT RI NH ME
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Kate_(1985)|Kate}}
||Fl GA
|-
||1989
||{{w|Hurricane_Hugo|Hugo}}
||SC NC VA WV OH VI
|-
||1991
||{{w|Hurricane_Bob|Bob}}
||NC ME MA NH VT RI CT
|-
||1992
||{{w|Hurricane_Andrew|Andrew}}
||FL LA
|-
||1995
||{{w|Hurricane_Opal|Opal}}
||AL FL GA
|-
||1996
||{{w|Hurricane_Fran|Fran}}
||SC NC VA WV MD PA
|-
||1998
||{{w|Hurricane_Bonnie_(1998)|Bonnie}}
||NC
|-
||1999
||{{w|Hurricane_Floyd|Floyd}}
||FL to ME
|-
||2002
||{{w|Hurricane_Lili|Lili}}
||LA MS AK
|-
||2003
||{{w|Hurricane_Isabel|Isabel}}
||NC to PA
|-
|rowspan="5"|2004
||{{w|Hurricane_Charley|Charley}}
||FL SC NC
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Frances|Frances}}
||VI PR FL
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Gaston_(2004)|Gaston}}
||SC NC VA MD DE MA
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Ivan|Ivan}}
||AL FL LA TX
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Jeanne|Jeanne}}
||VI PR FL
|-
|rowspan="3"|2005
||{{w|Hurricane_Dennis|Dennis}}
||Fl Al MS GA TN OH
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Katrina|Katrina}}
||FL LA MS AL
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Rita|Rita}}
||FL MS LA TX AR MO IL
|-
|rowspan="2"|2008
||{{w|Hurricane_Gustav|Gustav}}
||PR AL MS LA TX OK AR MO IL MI
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Ike|Ike}}
||FL OH LA TX MS
|-
|rowspan="2"|2011
||{{w|Hurricane_Irene|Irene}}
||NC CT NJ NY
|-
||{{w|Tropical_Storm_Lee_(2011)|Lee}}
||NY PA
|-
||2012
||{{w|Hurricane_Sandy|Sandy}}
||NJ NY PA MD DE
|}

==Trivia==
*Hurricanes have a maximum wind speed in the eye-wall around the centre of the storm. After a storm passes over land it loses the warm water needed to power it, and rapidly dissipates. Around the Caribbean Sea there are major storms, such as Katrina, that affect a long path inland, and storms such as Carmen that have had significant effects on local coastal areas. Further north the pattern changes, as hurricanes will be beginning to transform to an extra-tropical depression, and can intensify over land. There may be a degree of sample bias, as hurricanes from the early half of the twentieth century may not have been monitored as intensely after making landfall.

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Hurricanes]]
[[Category:Maps]]

1407: Worst Hurricane

2015-05-01T01:01:08Z

173.245.52.105: /* Listed hurricanes */

{{comic
| number = 1407
| date = August 13, 2014
| title = Worst Hurricane
| image = worst_hurricane.png
| titletext = 'Finding a 105-year-old who's lived in each location and asking them which hurricane they think was the worst' is left as an exercise for the reader.
}}

This comic has a [http://xkcd.com/1407/large/ larger version] available.

==Explanation==

The map divides America's Atlantic coastline into regions according to the worst hurricane that has hit each area in the last century, based on data from the North Atlantic hurricane database ({{w|HURDAT}}) to determine the severity and the {{w|National Centers for Enrvironmental Prediction}}'s (NCEP) rainfall to determin where the hurricane was present. Most of the hurricanes are listed by their US reporting names, with hurricanes before 1953 (the year when the current naming system was established) being listed by their year and sometimes a sequence number or city name.

The title text is a joke in light of this bleak humor, saying that finding residents in each of the regions who are old enough to have been alive through all of these is quite a daunting task. In principle, this would be the only way to confirm the "worst hurricane in living memory," and may be taken as a riposte to anyone who wishes to argue this map: "If you think there was a worse one, find a 105 year old resident who agrees!" 105 was likely chosen because most people can only remember back to an age when they were 5, so someone would have needed to be 5 years old to remember a hurricane in any detail 100 years later.

Hurricanes and especially their names have been featured before in comics [[453: Upcoming Hurricanes]], [[944: Hurricane Names]] and [[1126: Epsilon and Zeta]].

===Listed hurricanes===
A full list of North Atlantic hurricanes after {{w|Tropical cyclone naming}} was introduced can be found {{w|List_of_historic_tropical_cyclone_names#North_Atlantic|here}}.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Date
!Name
!States
!Highest winds
!Lowest pressure
!Casualties
(Est. total)
!Damage estimate
(USD; uninflated)
|-
|rowspan="2"|1915
||{{w|1915_Galveston_hurricane|Galveston}}
||LA TX OK AR
||145 mph
||940 mbar
||400
||$50 million
|-
||{{w|1915_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1915 VI}}
||LA MS AL TN KY WV PA
||145 mph
||931 mbar
||275
||$13 million
|-
|rowspan="2"|1916
||{{w|1916_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Four|1916 IV}}
||SC NC
||115 mph
||960 mbar
||7
||$100,000
|-
||{{w|1916_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1916 VI}}
||TX
||135 mph
||932 mbar
||15
||$1.8 million
|-
||1918
||{{w|1918_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_One|1918 I}}
||LA
||120 mph
||955 mbar
||34
||$5 million
|-
||1921
||{{w|1921_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1921 VI}}
||FL
||140 mph
||941 mbar
||6
||$3 million
|-
|rowspan="4"|1926
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_One|1926 I}}
||FL
||140 mph
||967 mbar
||<287
||$16,401,000
|-
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Two|1926 II}}
||GA
||140 mph
||967 mbar
||unknown
||unreported
|-
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Three|1926 III}}
||TX LA AL
||115 mph
||955 mbar
||25
||$6million
|-
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Seven|1926 VII}}
||FL AL MS LA
||150 mph
||930 mbar
||478
||$22 billion
|-
||1928
||{{w|1928_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Four|1928 IV}}
||FL SC NC
||160 mph
||≤ 929 mbar
||<4,078
||$100 million
|-
||1932
||{{w|1932_Freeport_hurricane|Freeport}}
||TX
||150 mph
||935 mbar
||40
||$7.5 million
|-
||1933
||{{w|1933_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1933 VI}}
||NC VA MD PA
||140 mph
||940 mbar
||31
||$27 million
|-
||1935
||{{w|1935_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Three|1935 III}}
||FL
||185 mph
||892 mbar
||<400
||unreported
|-
||1938
||{{w|1938_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1938 VI}}
||NY CT
||160 mph
||940 mbar
||682
||$300 million
|-
||1940
||{{w|1940_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Three|1940 III}}
||SC NC
||100 mph
||972 mbar
||50
||$13 million
|-
||1941
||{{w|1941_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Two|1941 II}}
||LA TX
||125 mph
||942 mbar
||4
||$7 million
|-
||1942
||{{w|1942_Matagorda_hurricane|Matagorda}}
||TX NM OK
||115 mph
||950 mbar
||8
||$26.5 million
|-
|rowspan="2"|1944
||{{w|1944_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Seven|1944 VII}}
||NY NC to CT
||145 mph
||933 mbar
||390
||<$100 million
|-
||{{w|1944_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Thirteen|1944 XII}}
||FL
||145 mph
||937 mbar
||300
||$100 million
|-
||1946
||{{w|1946_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1946 VI}}
||FL NC
||100 mph
||977 mbar
||5 (in Cuba)
||$5.2 million
|-
||1947
||{{w|1947_Cape_Sable_hurricane|King}}
||FL GA SN NC
||105 mph
||965 mbar
||1
||$20 million
|-
||1949
||{{w|1949_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Two|1949 II}}
||FL GA to NH
||130 mph
||954 mbar
||2
||$52 million
|-
||1950
||{{w|Hurricane_Easy_(1950)|Easy}}
||FL GA AK
||125 mph
||958 mbar
||2
||$3.3 million
|-
|rowspan="3"|1954
||{{w|Hurricane_Carol|Carol}}
||NY CT NH NC MA VA DC DE NJ
||115 mph
||957 mbar
||72
||$462 million
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Edna|Edna}}
||NY VA NC NJ MA ME NH
||120 mph
||≤ 954 mbar
||29
||>$42.8 million
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Hazel|Hazel}}
||NC VA WV MD DE NY PA NJ DC
||150 mph
||≤ 937 mbar
||1,000-1,200
||$420 million
|-
|rowspan="2"|1955
||{{w|Hurricane_Connie|Connie}}
||NC SC VA DC MD MI PA NJ NY
||145 mph
||936 mbar
||74
||<$86 million
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Diane|Diane}}
||PA NJ NY NC WV MA RI VT
||120 mph
||≤ 969 mbar
||≥184
||$754.7 million
|-
||1957
||{{w|Hurricane_Audrey|Audrey}}
||TX FL LA MS AL MI MO IL NY PA VT ME
||145 mph
||945 mbar
||<416
||$147 million
|-
||1958
||{{w|Hurricane_Helene_(1958)|Helene}}
||SC to ME
||135 mph
||934 mbar
||1
||$11.4 million
|-
||1959
||{{w|Hurricane_Gracie|Gracie}}
||SC GA VA PA
||140 mph
||950 mbar
||22
||$14 million
|-
||1960
||{{w|Hurricane_Donna|Donna}}
||FL GA SC NC VA MD PA NJ NY CT MA VT NH
||160 mph
||932 mbar
||164-364
||$900 million
|-
|rowspan="2"|1961
||{{w|Hurricane_Carla|Carla}}
||TX LA OK IL FL NE MO MI WI IN AL AK MS IA
||175 mph
||931 mbar
||43
||$325.74
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Esther_(1961)|Esther}}
||NC VA MD DE NJ NY CT MA NH
||145 mph
||927 mbar
||7
||$6 million
|-
|rowspan="2"|1964
||{{w|Hurricane_Dora|Dora}}
||FL
||130 mph
||942 mbar
||5
||$250 million
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Hilda|Hilda}}
||FL TX LA GA MS NC SC AL TN VA MD DE
||150 mph
||941 mbar
||38
||$126 million
|-
||1965
||{{w|Hurricane_Betsy|Betsy}}
||FL LA MS AR TE MO
||155 mph
||941 mbar
||81
||$1.42 billion
|-
||1966
||{{w|Hurricane_Alma_(1966)|Alma}}
||FL (up to FL/GA border)
||125 mph
||970 mbar
||91
||$210.1 million
|-
||1967
||{{w|Hurricane_Beulah|Beulah}}
||TX
||160 mph
||≤ 923 mbar
||688
||$1 billion
|-
||1969
||{{w|Hurricane_Camille|Camille}}
||AS MS LA
||175 mph
||900 mbar
||259
||$1.42 billion
|-
||1970
||{{w|Hurricane_Celia|Celia}}
||FL TX
||125 mph
||945 mbar
||28
||$930 million
|-
||1972
||{{w|Hurricane_Agnes|Agnes}}
||FL GA NC VA MD PA NY
||85 mph
||977 mbar
||128
||$2.1 billion
|-
||1974
||{{w|Hurricane_Carmen|Carmen}}
||LA TX
||150 mph
||928 mbar
||8
||$162 million
|-
||1975
||{{w|Hurricane_Eloise|Eloise}}
||FL
||125 mph
||955 mbar
||80
||$560 million
|-
|rowspan="2"|1979
||{{w|Hurricane_David|David}}
||FL
||175 mph
||924 mbar
||<2,068
||$1.54 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Frederic|Frederic}}
||FL AS MS
||135 mph
||943 mbar
||14
||$2.3 billion
|-
||1980
||{{w|Hurricane_Allen|Allen}}
||TX
||190 mph
||899 mbar
||269
||$1.24 billion
|-
||1984
||{{w|Hurricane_Diana_(1984)|Diana}}
||FL SC NC
||130 mph
||949 mbar
||3
||$65.5 million
|-
|rowspan="3"|1985
||{{w|Hurricane_Elena|Elena}}
||FL AL MS LA AR KY
||125 mph
||953 mbar
||9
||$1.3 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Gloria|Gloria}}
||NC VA MD DE NJ NY MA ME CT RI NH ME
||145 mph
||919 mbar
||14
||$900 million
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Kate_(1985)|Kate}}
||Fl GA
||120 mph
||954 mbar
||15
||$700 million
|-
||1989
||{{w|Hurricane_Hugo|Hugo}}
||SC NC VA WV OH VI
||160 mph
||918 mbar
||±107
||$10 billion
|-
||1991
||{{w|Hurricane_Bob|Bob}}
||NC ME MA NH VT RI CT
||115 mph
||950 mbar
||17
||$1.5 billion
|-
||1992
||{{w|Hurricane_Andrew|Andrew}}
||FL LA
||175 mph
||922 mbar
||65
||$26.5 billion
|-
||1995
||{{w|Hurricane_Opal|Opal}}
||AL FL GA
||150 mph
||916 mbar
||63
||$5.1 billion
|-
||1996
||{{w|Hurricane_Fran|Fran}}
||SC NC VA WV MD PA
||120 mph
||946 mbar
||27
||$3.2 billion
|-
||1998
||{{w|Hurricane_Bonnie_(1998)|Bonnie}}
||NC
||115 mph
||954 mbar
||5
||$1 billion
|-
||1999
||{{w|Hurricane_Floyd|Floyd}}
||FL to ME
||155 mph
||921 mbar
||77-87
||$6.9 billion
|-
||2002
||{{w|Hurricane_Lili|Lili}}
||LA MS AK
||145 mph
||938 mbar
||15
||$925 million
|-
||2003
||{{w|Hurricane_Isabel|Isabel}}
||NC to PA
||165 mph
||915 mbar
||51
||$5.37 billion
|-
|rowspan="5"|2004
||{{w|Hurricane_Charley|Charley}}
||FL SC NC
||150 mph
||941 mbar
||35
||$16.3 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Frances|Frances}}
||VI PR FL
||145 mph
||935 mbar
||49
||$9 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Gaston_(2004)|Gaston}}
||SC NC VA MD DE MA
||75 mph
||985 mbar
||9
||$130 million
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Ivan|Ivan}}
||AL FL LA TX
||165 mph
||910 mbar
||123
||$18 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Jeanne|Jeanne}}
||VI PR FL
||120 mph
||950 mbar
||<3,035
||$7 billion
|-
|rowspan="3"|2005
||{{w|Hurricane_Dennis|Dennis}}
||Fl Al MS GA TN OH
||150 mph
||930 mbar
||89
||$4 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Katrina|Katrina}}
||FL LA MS AL
||175 mph
||902 mbar
||<1,833
||$108 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Rita|Rita}}
||FL MS LA TX AR MO IL
||180 mph
||895 mbar
||97-125
||$12 billion
|-
|rowspan="2"|2008
||{{w|Hurricane_Gustav|Gustav}}
||PR AL MS LA TX OK AR MO IL MI
||155 mph
||941 mbar
||153
||$6.61 billion
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Ike|Ike}}
||FL OH LA TX MS
||145 mph
||935 mbar
||195
||$37.5 billion
|-
|rowspan="2"|2011
||{{w|Hurricane_Irene|Irene}}
||NC CT NJ NY
||120 mph
||942 mbar
||56
||$16.6 billion
|-
||{{w|Tropical_Storm_Lee_(2011)|Lee}}
||NY PA
||60 mph
||986 mbar
||18
||$1.6 billion
|-
||2012
||{{w|Hurricane_Sandy|Sandy}}
||NJ NY PA MD DE
||115 mph
||940 mbar
||286
||≥ $68 billion
|}

==Transcript==

:What's The
:;Worst Hurricane
:Anyone In Your Town Remembers?
:Estimated from Hurdat Database and NCEP rainfall totals
:1914-2014
:[A map of the east coast of the United States as far southwest as the Texas/Mexico border, as far northeast as the Maine/Canada border, and as far inland as Kentucky. The map has coastal regions blocked out with the name and year of the worst hurricane in the last 100 years.]
===Map===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Date
!Hurricane name
!States (Postcode form)
|-
|rowspan="2"|1915
||{{w|1915_Galveston_hurricane|Galveston}}
||LA TX OK AR
|-
||{{w|1915_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1915 VI}}
||LA MS AL TN KY WV PA
|-
|rowspan="2"|1916
||{{w|1916_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Four|1916 IV}}
||SC NC
|-
||{{w|1916_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1916 VI}}
||TX
|-
||1918
||{{w|1918_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_One|1918 I}}
||LA
|-
||1921
||{{w|1921_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1921 VI}}
||FL
|-
|rowspan="4"|1926
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_One|1926 I}}
||FL
|-
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Two|1926 II}}
||GA
|-
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Three|1926 III}}
||TX LA AL
|-
||{{w|1926_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Seven|1926 VII}}
||FL AL MS LA
|-
||1928
||{{w|1928_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Four|1928 IV}}
||FL SC NC
|-
||1932
||{{w|1932_Freeport_hurricane|Freeport}}
||TX
|-
||1933
||{{w|1933_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1933 VI}}
||NC VA MD PA
|-
||1935
||{{w|1935_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Three|1935 III}}
||FL
|-
||1938
||{{w|1938_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1938 VI}}
||NY CT
|-
||1940
||{{w|1940_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Three|1940 III}}
||SC NC
|-
||1941
||{{w|1941_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Two|1941 II}}
||LA TX
|-
||1942
||{{w|1942_Matagorda_hurricane|Matagorda}}
||TX NM OK
|-
|rowspan="2"|1944
||{{w|1944_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Seven|1944 VII}}
||NY NC to CT
|-
||{{w|1944_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Thirteen|1944 XII}}
||FL
|-
||1946
||{{w|1946_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Six|1946 VI}}
||FL NC
|-
||1947
||{{w|1947_Cape_Sable_hurricane|King}}
||FL GA SN NC
|-
||1949
||{{w|1949_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Two|1949 II}}
||FL GA to NH
|-
||1950
||{{w|Hurricane_Easy_(1950)|Easy}}
||FL GA AK
|-
|rowspan="3"|1954
||{{w|Hurricane_Carol|Carol}}
||NY CT NH NC MA VA DC DE NJ
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Edna|Edna}}
||NY VA NC NJ MA ME NH
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Hazel|Hazel}}
||NC VA WV MD DE NY PA NJ DC
|-
|rowspan="2"|1955
||{{w|Hurricane_Connie|Connie}}
||NC SC VA DC MD MI PA NJ NY
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Diane|Diane}}
||PA NJ NY NC WV MA RI VT
|-
||1957
||{{w|Hurricane_Audrey|Audrey}}
||TX FL LA MS AL MI MO IL NY PA VT ME
|-
||1958
||{{w|Hurricane_Helene_(1958)|Helene}}
||SC to ME
|-
||1959
||{{w|Hurricane_Gracie|Gracie}}
||SC GA VA PA
|-
||1960
||{{w|Hurricane_Donna|Donna}}
||FL GA SC NC VA MD PA NJ NY CT MA VT NH
|-
|rowspan="2"|1961
||{{w|Hurricane_Carla|Carla}}
||TX LA OK IL FL NE MO MI WI IN AL AK MS IA
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Esther_(1961)|Esther}}
||NC VA MD DE NJ NY CT MA NH
|-
|rowspan="2"|1964
||{{w|Hurricane_Dora|Dora}}
||FL
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Hilda|Hilda}}
||FL TX LA GA MS NC SC AL TN VA MD DE
|-
||1965
||{{w|Hurricane_Betsy|Betsy}}
||FL LA MS AR TE MO
|-
||1966
||{{w|Hurricane_Alma_(1966)|Alma}}
||FL (up to FL/GA border)
|-
||1967
||{{w|Hurricane_Beulah|Beulah}}
||TX
|-
||1969
||{{w|Hurricane_Camille|Camille}}
||AS MS LA
|-
||1970
||{{w|Hurricane_Celia|Celia}}
||FL TX
|-
||1972
||{{w|Hurricane_Agnes|Agnes}}
||FL GA NC VA MD PA NY
|-
||1974
||{{w|Hurricane_Carmen|Carmen}}
||LA TX
|-
||1975
||{{w|Hurricane_Eloise|Eloise}}
||FL
|-
|rowspan="2"|1979
||{{w|Hurricane_David|David}}
||FL
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Frederic|Frederic}}
||FL AS MS
|-
||1980
||{{w|Hurricane_Allen|Allen}}
||TX
|-
||1984
||{{w|Hurricane_Diana_(1984)|Diana}}
||FL SC NC
|-
|rowspan="3"|1985
||{{w|Hurricane_Elena|Elena}}
||FL AL MS LA AR KY
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Gloria|Gloria}}
||NC VA MD DE NJ NY MA ME CT RI NH ME
|-
||{{w|Hurricane_Kate_(1985)|Kate}}
||Fl GA
|-
||1989
||{{w|Hurricane_Hugo|Hugo}}
||SC NC VA WV OH VI
|-
||1991
||{{w|Hurricane_Bob|Bob}}
||NC ME MA NH VT RI CT
|-
||1992
||{{w|Hurricane_Andrew|Andrew}}
||FL LA
|-
||1995
||{{w|Hurricane_Opal|Opal}}
||AL FL GA
|-
||1996
||{{w|Hurricane_Fran|Fran}}
||SC NC VA WV MD PA
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*Hurricanes have a maximum wind speed in the eye-wall around the centre of the storm. After a storm passes over land it loses the warm water needed to power it, and rapidly dissipates. Around the Caribbean Sea there are major storms, such as Katrina, that affect a long path inland, and storms such as Carmen that have had significant effects on local coastal areas. Further north the pattern changes, as hurricanes will be beginning to transform to an extra-tropical depression, and can intensify over land. There may be a degree of sample bias, as hurricanes from the early half of the twentieth century may not have been monitored as intensely after making landfall.

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Talk:1384: Krypton

2015-03-23T19:03:01Z

173.245.52.105: Removed off topic discussion

Is the Earth baby the real reason Krypton was destroyed? [[Special:Contributions/103.22.201.239|103.22.201.239]] 08:58, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Is now a good time to mark the shark jump? --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.135|108.162.210.135]] 12:52, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
:Only if this keeps up. Yeah, it's a crappy comic, but I don't think the quality overall has been dropping that much. Everyone has off days. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.83|173.245.55.83]] 13:58, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
::Jumping the shark is a single event, not a segment of time. In this case it's launching the earth baby. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.175|108.162.237.175]] 03:30, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
:::And you can't identify a "shark jump" until a consistent decline is clearly evident. Then you can look back, and see where things started going downhill. [[User:NealCruco|NealCruco]] ([[User talk:NealCruco|talk]]) 15:32, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
::::And often a "shark jump" is entirely arbitrary and based primarily on the opinion of self-centered wankers who think just because it doesn't make them laugh then obviously it's in an unstoppable nose dive. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.221|108.162.249.221]] 05:32, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Not so bad if you can relate to the anguish of parenting a colicky kid. Sending him to Krypton is an improvement on some of the things I was tempted to do. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.71|173.245.55.71]] 15:08, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
:Sending a baby off to die is better than things you were tempted to do? You really want to make that claim? [[Special:Contributions/199.27.133.39|199.27.133.39]] 16:14, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

It may be a cultural-linguistic thing, but I felt compelled to change "cries" to "crying", in the explanation. Hearing "his cries" is redolent of "Ahoy there!" coming from a person attracting attention in a nautical context, the various distinctive calls of a person selling produce in a street-market or "I'm up here! Get me down!" from a person stuck on the ledge of a burning building. When a baby cries (as opposed to when someone "cries out") you hear him (or her... it's not actually specified) 'crying', not his(/her) 'calling-cries', even though both are indeed similar forms of attracting attention. I've overthought this, of course. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.57|141.101.99.57]] 15:19, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

(Also, should the baby survive... somehow... would Earth Rock, howsoever sent there, be naturally ''strenghthening'' to the child? Assuming similarly transmuted as per the mundane (for native Kryptonians) planetary material beneath their feet was, during the cataclysm... It'd probably depend on which subsection of Superman canon you observed, as they tend to reinvent the 'physics' behind standard green kryptonite, even before adding in the other colours of it...) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.57|141.101.99.57]] 15:19, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Can someone '''explain''' how this is funny? {{unsigned ip|108.162.217.47}}
:Seriously. ''Infanticide as entertainment?!!'' Parents deciding to kill a baby because it's noisy is neither amusing nor an interesting observation. Shame on Randall. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.133.39|199.27.133.39]] 16:11, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
:: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESFANzZTdYM "Infanticide as entertainment?!!"] --[[Special:Contributions/108.220.125.48|108.220.125.48]] 11:26, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
:::Given infanticide only being punished after you do it to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Gosnell several infants over 19 years] why would any good liberal worry about it in a comic strip?[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 04:05, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
::::108.162.217.47 and 108.220.125.48, just think of it as a post-birth abortion. Does that make it easier to handle? [[User:NealCruco|NealCruco]] ([[User talk:NealCruco|talk]]) 15:32, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
:::::What's the best part about dead baby jokes? They never get old. --[[User:Dangerkeith3000|Dangerkeith3000]] ([[User talk:Dangerkeith3000|talk]]) 18:41, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
:::::What's the deal with the discussion here? Its like some anti abortion person said, look at this comic and make comments and two people showed up. Protip, no one cares what you think. They care about explaining the comic. 15:32, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

What I totally don't get is...when the visual information about Krypton's instability has reached Earth, Krypton has already exploded many years ago. I guess that Kal-El's spaceship is travelling at near-lightspeed, so time-dilation effects cause very little apparent time to pass for Kal-El; so when he arrives he's still a a baby. This assumes that (a) the alien technology allows for extraordinary acceleration while still maintaining survivable conditions for the baby (while Superman can apparently survive extreme conditions, this trait is most probably bestowed upon him only at the end of his journey by the Earth sun), and (b) the he is a male (this primary sexual characteristics are not shown in the movie, IIRC...). An FTL spaceship is out of the question, as this would mean that the Krptonite meteors would also have been travelling at FTL speed.

:Whatever. By the time a spaceship from Earth arrives, even if it travels at near-lightspeed, Clark Kent will most probably be facing retirement already (after turning a crank for many years, of course).

Btw, having Superman turn a crank instead of having him fight crimes would not necessarily mean that Lex Luthor would have had success with his evil plans. Mr. Bond, James Bond, had proven numerous times that he can stop any criminal who attempt to achieve world domination or at least extreme wealth via over-convoluted plans. Yep, I mean, if you could build powersats, you'd immediately achieve wold domination via your monopoly for "free and clean energy", so why bother with criminal plans? Any, if you are smart enough to build powersats, but cannot resist the temptation to use them for over-convoluted criminal plans, should yout net able to think about the option to give your Legion of Doom at least basic training in marksmanship?

But I think I'm getting carried away. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.108|108.162.254.108]] 16:25, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

I actually thought this was more brilliant before I saw the second ship (rather: noticed that the crystal was a ship). I thought the gag was that some human, in attempting to resolve a crying baby (we've all been there, and if you haven't, don't knock it) actually created Superman (the shuttle destroys the unstable Krypton, and the baby is flung back). If anyone does think that this comic is gruesome, then stop reading it: your efforts could be rewardingly employed by criticizing "Cyanide and Happiness" instead. I love the quirkiness Randall! [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.88|108.162.216.88]] 16:45, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Am I alone in thinking ([http://www.dvice.com/sites/dvice/files/enterprise-warp.jpg NCC-1701]) moviebombed the 1978 film? See 'version depicted' in explanation. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.133.73|199.27.133.73]] 20:06, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

I think the depth of the cartoon is Newton's "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction" [[User:Nathan Hillery|Nathan Hillery]] ([[User talk:Nathan Hillery|talk]]) 14:01, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Scientific objections? But everything about Superman is already scientifically implausible anyway. [[User:Jim E|Jim E]] ([[User talk:Jim E|talk]]) 19:53, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Regarding the following quote under trivia: "As faster than light-speed travel is impossible according to the current model of our universe this option is not really relevant here." FTL is entirely (theoretically) ppssible, its just travel *at* lightspeed that is impossible. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.36|108.162.221.36]] 01:32, 29 June 2014 (UTC)