Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33388760-20181227215710/@comment-36525872-20190120020217

KoolGuy8039 wrote: HurricaneAlpha96 wrote: I’ll re-unretire Dennis because I believe no more than four names per year should ever be retired and Dennis was by far the least siginificant of the storms retired that year. I will also unretire Connie 1955, Gracie 1959, Hilda 1964, Carmen 1974, Anita 1977, Greta 1978, Elena and Gloria 1985, Klaus 1990, Roxanne 1995, Hortense 1996, Lenny 1999, Isidore and Lili 2002, Paloma 2008, Joaquin 2015, Otto 2016, and Nate 2017. Borderline cases include Frederic 1978, Alicia 1983, Bob 1991, Luis and Marilyn 1995, Keith 2000, Iris and Michelle 2001, Fabian and Juan 2003, Frances 2004, all of 2007, Igor and Tomas 2010, Irene 2011, Ingrid 2013, and Erika 2015. Re-retiring Dennis, as it killed 88 people and caused $3.9 billion in damages. It may not have been as significant as the other storms, but it was still bad.

Also, Frederic was 1979. Irene was an obvious retirement.