Talk:Judging Retired Names/@comment-43747374-20190906230944

As a Bermudian who lived through Fabian, allow me to explain why it should be retired.. We're a nation of resilient people, we've been through MANY a hurricane being located in the hurricane belt, yet despite this, we had never once requested retirement. A hurricane doesn't need to have mass deaths and billions of dollars in damage to strike a nerve with a nation and by definition, a hurricane name is requested to be retired if it is deemed to be too insensitive to that nation to be used again. If I mention the name Fabian to residents here it's instant recollection. We're not a very large country so it'll take near anhialation to reach the billions worth of damage observed in the US and elsewhere. Our homes are quite hurricane proof so even $300m is quite massive (and is closer to $700m adjusting for inflation today). This was the first storm to cause a death on the island in the modern era and I have never seen anything like before or since. I understand why you decided to put it under doesn't deserve but I hope I cleared up it up for you why we did. (I also went to school in Halifax and the name Juan seems to resonate with them just like Fabian does for us). Don't always look at just the numbers.