The U.S. East Coast is beginning to clean up after Hurricane Sandy.  Two articles, one by Geoffrey Pullum in Lingua Franca  and one by Mark Liberman in Language Log discuss word compounding as it relates to popular names for the storm.

Pullum: (http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2012/10/31/frankenwords/)

Liberman: (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4280)