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ProudMNDemocrat

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7. Come Hurricane season, what will the Weather Channel call it? The Gulf?

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Mon Jan 27, 2025, 08:29 PM

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Being that Canada, the USA, Mexico, Central America, make up the overall North American continent, I could accept the Gulf of the Americas. Gulf of America makes it sound like it is OURS by right.

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