Talk:List of notable Florida hurricanes from 1900-1960

message: This section was removed from the main article because the storm it describes was not very notable in Florida, but was more notable elsewhere. It is other wise a well written section, so I am posting it here. 
===Gulf of Mexico Hurricane===
September 9, 1919
Category 4 at landfall
Drowning All in Sight
One of the deadliest storms in US history formed just off the Lesser Antilles on September 2. The storm quickly strengthened as it tracked across the Bahamas and would become a Category 4 hurricane. At the same time, the storm would make its way on a direct path for the Florida Keys and it would be one of the few hurricanes to directly hit Key West. Flooding was immense and the winds caused considerable damage on land in the Keys. The minimum central pressure when it reached the Keys was recorded at 927 mbar, which makes this storm the sixth most intense hurricane to affect the United States. The worst destruction was still to come though: starting on September 10, one by one, ten ships sunk just west of the Florida coast near the Dry Tortugas, where more than 500 people were killed. With no Hurricane Hunters or satellites back in those days, there was a constant struggle to find the center of the hurricane, and at times the storm was actually "lost". Eventually on September 14, the storm would make a final landfall on the other side of the Gulf in Corpus Christi, Texas, the destruction continued and another 287 were confirmed dead and many more unaccounted for. The damage was estimated at $22 million, and the final death toll is estimated around 900, which makes the 1919 storm one of the five deadliest in US history.
*See Also: 1919 Florida Keys Hurricane
Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde 22:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Gulf of Mexico Hurricane

message: September 9, 1919
Category 4 at landfall
Drowning All in Sight
One of the deadliest storms in US history formed just off the Lesser Antilles on September 2. The storm quickly strengthened as it tracked across the Bahamas and would become a Category 4 hurricane. At the same time, the storm would make its way on a direct path for the Florida Keys and it would be one of the few hurricanes to directly hit Key West. Flooding was immense and the winds caused considerable damage on land in the Keys. The minimum central pressure when it reached the Keys was recorded at 927 mbar, which makes this storm the sixth most intense hurricane to affect the United States. The worst destruction was still to come though: starting on September 10, one by one, ten ships sunk just west of the Florida coast near the Dry Tortugas, where more than 500 people were killed. With no Hurricane Hunters or satellites back in those days, there was a constant struggle to find the center of the hurricane, and at times the storm was actually "lost". Eventually on September 14, the storm would make a final landfall on the other side of the Gulf in Corpus Christi, Texas, the destruction continued and another 287 were confirmed dead and many more unaccounted for. The damage was estimated at $22 million, and the final death toll is estimated around 900, which makes the 1919 storm one of the five deadliest in US history.
*See Also: 1919 Florida Keys Hurricane
Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde 22:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Gulf of Mexico Hurricane

message: I decided to merge this two article into a big series, so I put that template below the article. If you dislike the form of the template, feel free to modify its format; but please do not eliminate it. Oh.. I also put the Hurricane Donna link in the proper section juan andrés 00:12, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is formatted to have links to main articles after their storm's respective sections. That way, people reading just one section can see that there is another article that may give them more information. -- §Hurricane ERIC§ archive -- my dropsonde 03:39, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cool series 

message: I cleaned this section up.  Some notable changes:
* I renamed it from Lake Okeechobee to Okeechobee Hurricane.  I have no particular opinion on the name (see the talk page in the hurricane article) but the name must be consistent with the article's name.
* I removed the wrong information about 1,000-2,000 deaths in puerto rico.
* I added some information about the even greater catastrophe in the leeward islands.
* I fixed the landfall wind speed (which was completely wrong).
* I removed some completely inadequate numbers: "thousands of tons of water" covering "hundreds of acres".  The true numbers are much more staggering.  Floodwaters covered hundreds of square miles.  At a depth of five feet (conservative!) that would be hundreds of millions or possibly billions of tons of water.
* I also just generally condensed it.
— jdorje (talk) 05:19, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's most commonly refered to as the Lake Okeechobee Hurricane of the San Felipe Hurricane. -- §HurricaneERIC§Damagesarchive 18:55, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Okeechobee section 

message: I did a copyedit of the article, including some things I imagine you don't agree with.  But I'll start with the simple stuff:
* One consistent problem is that the article goes into too much detail on impact of storms outside of Florida.  This article is about Florida, so that's obviously what the focus should be.  I think this means we need to separate the deaths and (if possible) damage and make it clear exactly how much was caused in Florida.  Every storm gives a death toll but for many of them only a few of those deaths occurred in florida.
:At first I wondered why the detail had been removed, but I see your point. DavidH 16:55, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Overall, I do like the links to "main article" at the top rather than bottom of each section. DavidH 17:03, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Jdorje, you removed a lot of extensive research. You need to think about the consequences before you start removing things that people spent hours researching. Also, in one of the sections I said: "The storm caused $54 million in damage (1945 dollars)." Then you made a note saying "Information wrong: It would equal 8 billion today." Well I'm not talking about today. Note the use of "(1945 dollars)". You might want to read facts and then research them yourself before you say that they're wrong. -- §HurricaneERIC§Damagesarchive 01:51, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Where I removed information for storms that did not have an article, I merged the information into the season article.  I assume the storm articles already have more information than this article; if not then the information needs to be merged in there.  In any case since the research had no sources given it is of little long-term use as it will all have to be researched a second time in full to verify the sources.  As for the "information wrong" part, what's wrong is that $54 million in 1945 dollars is not $8 billion in "today" dollars; note that I only cut out the "wrong" $8B value not the $54m value. — jdorje (talk) 08:36, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What are you talking about? The sources are at the bottom of the page. -- §HurricaneERIC§Damagesarchive 23:07, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, sources that are not inline are not very useful.  Information needs to be verifiable and you can't expect someone to go through the entire external links section to find each piece of data.  (This is a problem with all older articles.  Adding useful sources generally takes more work than writing the article did in the first place, because you do have to go through all the sources to find every little bit of data.)  Anyway, feel free to add back anything, but please include inline sources. — jdorje (talk) 02:34, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That I agree with but don't say that the sources aren't there at all; inline or otherwise, as was implied above. Remember, citations that suck are better than ones that don't exist. -- §HurricaneERIC§Damagesarchive 20:45, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, yes, you got me: I just didn't notice the sources at the bottom.  Still, sucky citations may still be a reason to add a  tag.  — jdorje (talk) 03:12, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyedit 

message: Have, per Catastrophic Florida hurricanes: 1961-present, relegated this article to Start-class. Mind you, it's not the EXTENSIVENESS of the article that determines the class, it's how it's WRITTEN. – Chacor 09:12, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Start-class

message: Per WP:BOLD, I've moved the article to its current location. It's obviously a list, and "catastrophic" was too POV. "Notable" is still sort of POV, but I can't think of anything better. This article might also be better off being merged into the post-1960 article. – Chacor 05:07, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I merged this with the List of Florida hurricanes article, seeing as it was nearly duplicate in content. --Hurricanehink (talk) 15:11, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article renamed