hurricane hole?

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"What we need is a hurricane hole."
"A hurricane hole?"
"It's a place to leave your boat in a hurricane."

I still can't understand what "hurricane hole" is.

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@PennyChan,

From context, I suppose it is a safe harbor or secure storage place.

I never actually heard the term before, but don't see what else it could be.

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@PennyChan,

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I still can't understand what "hurricane hole" is

It's the hole where the hurricane blows air through the head which is becalmed in a sea of lexicological maelstrom.

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@roger,

Roger is right. It's a sheltered, safe anchorage or mooring where your boat will be safe from a hurricane.

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Isn't the eye of a hurricane a calm area? Is this the hole, figuratively speaking, that is meant or does the term hurricane hole derive from this?

http://www.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=eye+of+the+hurricane&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=B-FWTe21Oo34sAODkeibDA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CDIQsAQwAQ&biw=1034&bih=637

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@JTT,

No. The hurricane moves, so the "calm at the eye of the storm" is meaningless when considering a single location.

It is as I wrote.

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