Why do Americans name hurricanes?

@pianoplayingsteve I get where you're coming from. But have you seen the names given to rivers as opposed to hurricanes? Hurricanes have been ID'd with American names here.

A question for someone like you would be why we don't name highways here in the U.S.? 👀
If you understand that, then you'll get where I'm coming from

@Iwantyourhotwife we dont name highways because we instead have codes for them which works better in the context of being a connection network. Imagine hurricane katrina but instead highway katrina, that would be no help as to giving directions saying use this road and then that. Code allows you to know which exits or entrances to use, how many roads diverge off before the one you want etc

@pianoplayingsteve so you get me. Codifying things helps us associate that code with something we keep track of. I'm thinking a system to show the intensity and year would have made sense for hurricanes and tropical storms as opposed to encapsulating it in a name. But I guess the system is how it is

@Iwantyourhotwife but thats also because there are an insane number of roads, we would run out of names. We still do record the details of hurricanes but a name makes it easier to refer to. Imagine it in another context....do you remember that 1,500,000? What am i talking about? Obviously the armenian genocide, we name genocides after the death count, now, it shows its intensity