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| | FEMA For Kids: Hurricane Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | Remember, there can be more than one hurricane at a time and without naming them, we could get confused and which storm we're talking about. |
 | | For hundreds of years, hurricanes in the West Indies were named after the particular saint's day on which the hurricane occurred. |
 | | One name for each letter of the alphabet is selected, except for Q, U and Z. For Atlantic Ocean hurricanes, the names may be French, Spanish or English, since these are the major languages bordering the Atlantic Ocean where the storm occur. |
| www.fema.gov /kids/hunames.htm (208 words) |
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