Winter Storm Luna?

So the National Weather Service (NWS) has begun naming winter storms the way they name hurricanes.  And at present, winter storm Luna has us iced in.  (temporarily.  until the temps hit the 40s, which they will shortly).

Having grown up with winter storms (and walked through more than one to get home from school), driven foolishly through far too many on bald tires with crummy wiper blades, and shoveled out of untold numbers more, I questioned the judgment of the NWS when they began this naming business.  This stuff is normal life in the Great Lakes states.  The only winter storms we really remember are the ones that hit hard at Christmas, disrupting everyone's travel plans, or the ones that knock out power for long enough to have you lose the contents of your refrigerator/freezer.

I think it was a plot by those soft Easterners in Washington who can't cope with a little snow and ice.  You ask a native of the Upper Midwest if naming winter storms is a good idea, and they'll just look at you and ask: "are you from here?  If you were, you wouldn't ask."

What we ought to name is tornados.  (or is it tornadoes?  You say potato, I say potatoe...)  And we do sort of name them, right?  In 2011, we had two that people would remember: Joplin, MO, and Tuscaloosa/Birmingham.  We name them after the towns that they flatten, where the homes are gone and people die.

Flattening towns, and making people homeless (or dead):  now that's a storm you name.

As for winter storm Luna, I think I'll just go sprinkle some salt.