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If a Hurricane Taylor struck US during a T. Swift release
Hi everyone! I'm a pretty big weather buff as much as I am a music buff. As a result, this situation came into my mind.
The Atlantic Hurricane Seasons have a 6 year rotating name list. Right now, the name Taylor is not on any of those lists: Tammy, Tanya and Teresa are the three female names on there currently. Teresa, had the Atlantic been active enough this year, could have been used, but most likely won't as this year, we only got up to the K storm and the season ends on Monday. But bottom line, the name Taylor would have to be a replacement of those three female names if a really bad storm with that name were to hit somewhere. Tammy will appear on a list in 2017, so if the season is really active enough to reach the T storm, and Tammy is a destructive monster, it could be retired and replaced with Taylor possibly in 2023. That's the earliest a Taylor storm could happen at this point.
Taylor Swift has been known for releasing her albums in October. October would be a reasonable month for the T storm in a season to form, and it is in fact when the last three T storms formed: Tropical Storm Tammy in October 2005, Hurricane Tomas in October 2010 and Tropical Storm Tony in October 2012 (the storm that formed right after Hurricane Sandy)
The Atlantic is also in an active phase of hurricane seasons, which started in 1995. The 2005 season (which spawned Katrina) and the 2012 season (which spawned Sandy) both got the T storm in October, during a very active season. And in both seasons, the US were affected in October by a major storm, Wilma in 2005 and of course, Sandy in 2012. Both of those storms also affected the US in the LAST week of October, the same time when Taylor releases her albums
Which leads to me this question. Let's say, in October 2023, when Taylor is 33, she is preparing to release her new album, in the last week of October. Around that time, a tropical storm named Taylor forms in the caribbean. It rapidly intensifies into a major hurricane and moves into the Gulf of Mexico. Forcasters predict it to be a major at landfall and a very serious event.
How would Taylor Swift's PR team handle a hurricane, which could potentially be as destructive as Andrea, Camille, Irene, Katrina, Rita, Sandy and Wilma get in the way of their album release plans? I doubt they would want a storm with her name making landfall, killing people and destroying cities.
Would Taylor push her release to November if this were to happen, or to go with the release as planned?
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