Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33388760-20181227215710/@comment-37074891-20190323182642

HurricaneAlpha96 wrote: The problem with Carmen is that most of its damage was clearly from the US ($150 million in the US vs $10 million in Mexico). And what's wrong with having an opinion that retirement should be more conservative? Not that Florence or Michael were bad cuts. Also, names were not requested to be retired before 1979 as far as I know. The NHC had unilateral control of the lists before then hence they were the ones who got to say what and what didn't get retired.

Joaquin may have been deserving for its damage to the Bahamas but not for what it was actually retired for (El Farro). I mean, the El Faro disaster was a tragedy, but it wasn't entirely the hurricane's fault it sank.