Hurricanes Quotes

“Do you know why hurricanes have names instead of numbers? To keep the killing personal. No one cares about a bunch of people killed by a number. '200 Dead as Number Three Slams Ashore' is not nearly as interesting a headline as 'Charlie kills 200.' Death is much more satisfying and entertaining if you personalize it.

Me, I'm still waitin' for Hurricane Ed. Old Ed wouldn't hurt ya, would he? Sounds kinda friendly. 'Hell no, we ain't evacuatin'. Ed's comin'!”
― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

“Demons never die quietly, and a week ago the storm was a proper demon, sweeping through the Caribbean after her long ocean crossing from Africa, a category five when she finally came ashore at San Juan before moving on to Santo Domingo and then Cuba and Florida. But now she's grown very old, as her kind measures age, and these are her death throes. So she holds tightly to this night, hanging on with the desperate fury of any dying thing, any dying thing that might once have thought itself invincible.”
― Caitlin R. Kiernan

“Just listen, okay?" He grabs my shoulders before I can move past him, and I know, I know that something huge is happening, the kind of thing that takes worlds apart and remakes them. Hurricanes and tornadoes and boys with blue eyes.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“That's something every islander knows--there's always going to be another hurricane. Another storm. Everything buried will surface again, and everything you thought would last forever will come down eventually. But you rebuild. You dredge. You keep moving, keep adding new. That's how we go on living.”
― Roseanna M. White, Yesterday's Tides

“It is only a matter of time before we have category 6 hurricanes.”
― Steven Magee

“Climate change is in the process of turning the most powerful category 5 hurricanes into future category 6 supermassive hurricanes.”
― Steven Magee

“Are category 6 supermassive hurricanes the future?”
― Steven Magee

“The hurricane is the black hole of weather.”
― Steven Magee

“The Hawaii island locals say the high mountains protect the island from hurricanes.”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes may be nearer than you think!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes sound so cool and so scary!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes are probably going to be popular with school kids!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will make everything that came before look tame.”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes are going to be the new monster!”
― Steven Magee

“Humans versus category 6 supermassive hurricanes!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes may be coming to you in the future!”
― Steven Magee

“Never heard of Category 6 supermassive hurricanes? Mother nature is working on it.”
― Steven Magee

“Never heard of category 6 supermassive hurricanes? Keep on burning the fossil fuels and you may get to meet one!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will run on fossil fuel.”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes may be the end of Florida!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will likely result from global warming.”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will feed on warm water.”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will be like nothing that has come before them!”
― Steven Magee

“Florida and hurricanes are like twins!”
― Steven Magee

“It is likely I will never go to Florida again.”
― Steven Magee

“Learn from Florida’s mistakes!”
― Steven Magee

“The government never tells you the true death tolls!”
― Steven Magee

“The government has decided that high death tolls are bad for business and does everything it can to keep the numbers artificially low.”
― Steven Magee

“Hurricanes Ian and Dora are both lessons that the government public safety systems do not work.”
― Steven Magee

“Florida's weather on the coast comes in, wipes you out like a giant with a weed whacker and zips out. Maine winters creep in like a python on little cat feet, take years to squeeze the life out of you, and never seem to leave.”
― Robert Karl Skoglund