Sirius-ly Cool
Jul 17, 2018
4 minutes
By Capt. Bill Pike
Several years ago, I was part of a three-man delivery crew tasked with taking a 42-foot trawler from Ft. Lauderdale to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. The trip began in early November, stretched on for days and coincided with the appearance of a hurricane in the central Caribbean that proceeded west (instead of east, the typical direction of cyclonic storms in the northern hemisphere), a confusing sort of behavior that earned it the nickname “Wrong Way Lenny.”
Lenny was bad—so bad that the World Meteorological Organization ultimately decided, in deference to the horrific damages the storm caused, never to apply its name to a hurricane in
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