Will Stan be retired?

[quandary]

Tropical depressions and unnamed storms kill dozens of people annually.

[quandary]

People are making a lot of comparisons to Allison and Jeanne. Allison caused 5 billion dollars in damage in the United States. That was the cause for retirement. Jeanne probably would've been retired on deaths, but it was 3000 deaths, not 50-200.

[susan]

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/retiram.html


This explains it some...

[Anonymous]

65 now dead

[Buck]

I believe it was already up to 67 yesterday.

[gilbert88]

People are making a lot of comparisons to Allison and Jeanne. Allison caused 5 billion dollars in damage in the United States. That was the cause for retirement. Jeanne probably would've been retired on deaths, but it was 3000 deaths, not 50-200.

Stan devastated a big area. Maybe it won't cost 5 billion dollars, but the destruction of homes, roads and crops is relatively worse.

[gilbert88]

Stan

The death toll from Hurricane Stan now stands at 103, including 50 deaths in El Salvador, 34 in Guatemala, 11 in Nicaragua and eight in Mexico. The remnant circulation from Stan continues to pull moist tropical air from the Pacific Ocean into the disaster areas, where more flooding rains are expected to make the disaster even worse. Stan, who barely made it to Category 1 strength for a few hours, will likely have his name retired, thanks to this unfolding disaster. This would make the Hurricane Season of 2005 the first season to have five names retired (1955, 1995, and 2004 all had four storm names retired)

Mmm... I don't see how "Stan" won't be retired now. The regional media is all over this right now, and its almost a fact that the Mexican government will request the retirement.

[fasterdisaster]

For you poo-poo-ers for Stan's retirement, is this enough for you?

El Salvador 50
Guatemala 50
Nicaragua 11
Mexico 8
Honduras 4
Costa Rica 1
TOTAL 124

And rising at a quick pace