Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33388760-20181227215710/@comment-33388760-20190117050842

Destroyer40506 wrote: HurricaneAlpha96 wrote: Paloma was retired for its affects on the Cayman Islands, not Cuba. Hence the replacement name being Paulette instead of a Spanish name. I still think that should have stayed due to Ivan four years earlier. I also wouldn’t retire Bret, Gordon, Emily, or Edith. Bret and Gordon because they were tropical storms and weren’t seriously considered as candidates for retirement until Allison 2001. Emily and Edith weren’t too destructive despite their strength. Fay 2008 has the case of both scenarios. Hanna, IDK if deaths are a proper indication of devastation in Haiti due to it being so poor, mountainous and deforested that it doesn’t take much to kill a lot in Haiti. Wait, didn't Emily cause $1 billion dollars in damage? About that...$1 billion in damage isn’t a lot for the standards of both the US and Mexico. And Emily did only about $840 million of that in Mexico I believe. Yeah,they retired Ingrid of 2013 for $1.5 billion in damage but that was in conjunction with Manuel in the EPAC. Alex and Karl of 2010 were just as costly for Mexico (more than double that alone for Karl) and neither were retired. Tbh I think Grenada would have had a better case than Mexico for retiring Emily but with Ivan a year earlier basically destroying it I guess they decided it pales in comparison.