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Most of these were before my time as well, though I think I'm older than you (Hurricane Andrew happened when I was an infant). I'll never forget Katrina and Rita back-to-back, hammering the Gulf of Mexico the way they did - nor the political maelstrom that followed (I was a freshman in high school, just starting to become more "aware" and not take what I was told at face value).

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It's a shame how stigmatized the name Katrina was for a long time, because I've always liked the name. It might not be as taboo anymore, though. Although I checked the popularity stats and the drop-off is a bit less steep than I'd thought it would be; but it still fell out of the Top 1000 a decade ago.

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Other names on this list I like:

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Audrey
Carla
Carol
Connie (as a nickname for Constance)
David
Dennis (he's a real menace, isn't he?)
Diana
Donna
Dorian
Elena (I had no idea this was the name of a hurricane!)
Florence
Gustav
Hazel
Ione (no idea this was a hurricane name, either)
Irene (oh, this was a bad one)
Iris
Isabel
Joan
Laura
Matthew (yeah, this one, too)
Michael
Noel (why don't I remember this one?)
Otto
Roxanne

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