Hurricane Dean's wreckage in Mexico - AP Photo 

We don't remember it as a particularly bad hurricane season because there was little impact in the U.S. But three storm names on last year's list for the Atlantic basin have been retired for all time because of the deaths and destruction the storms wreaked across the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America.

Members of the World Meteorological Organization's Regional Association IV Hurricane Committee voted at their annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. to permanently retire the names Dean. Felix and Noel. Normally, name lists are recycled every seven years. So these three would have reappeared on the 2013 list for the Atlantic. Instead, they will be replaced by Dorian, Fernand and Nestor.

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Hurricane Dean blew into the season's first Category 5 storm and crashed ashore on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico on Aug. 21 last year. At least 32 people in the storm's path perished.

In September, Hurricane Felix crossed the Caribbean and it, too, became a Cat. 5 storm. It went ashore in Nicaragua as a Cat. 5 on Sept. 4, the first time two storms have made landfall at that strength in a single season since record-keeping began in 1851. Another 130 people died.

In October, Hurricane Noel formed in the Caribbean and caused great damage in the Dominican republic, Haiti, Jamaica and the Bahamas before it even reached hurricane strength. At least 160 people died.