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Can Frances rock you like a hurricane?

Published Thursday, September 02, 2004 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

All of this hurricane talk this summer -- Hurricane Frances on its way to Florida as I type -- got me to thinking about the Scorpions and their 1984 megahit, Rock You Like a Hurricane. Would it ever be an appropriate soundtrack? Ordinarily, no. Poor taste. Unless, of course, it were Hurricane Klaus, named for lead singer Klaus Meine. There have been two Atlantic-sized opportunities so far: 1984 (coincidence? methinks not) and 1990.

The official data and tracking maps of such...
1984 Hurricane Klaus
1990 Hurricane Klaus