Talk:Hurricane Rita/Archive 2

message: Very informative piece except one minor detail.  WHEN did the hurricane hit land??? 66.224.68.54, 15:36, 6 October 2005 UTC 
:It's already mentioned; it made landfall east of Sabine Pass, in Louisiana. Check out "made landfall between Sabine Pass, Texas, and Johnson Bayou, Louisiana, at 02:38 CDT (07:38 UTC) on 24 September 2005 as a Category 3 hurricane" -- NSLE | Talk 06:43, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  WHEN did Rita hit???? 

message: "The warm water in the Gulf of Mexico, which is currently 1 °F (0.5 °C) above average"
And when was that - ie when was "currently"? Please, don't use "currently", as it dates so fast as to become useless extremely quickly. Use dates and (if known) times. 81.159.56.103 00:41, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the water in all the oceans averaged this year 1 degree F above normal.  Water in the Gulf of Mexico this year was in places allegedly up to 5 degrees F above normal.  I haven't chased down the details yet.  It is considered well-known that sea surface temperature must be above 80 degrees F for hurricanes to thrive, and I saw data buoy results in late September that showed 84.5 degrees.  See Loop Current. Simesa 03:20, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

text: 119. Only 6 of them were as a result of the actual effects of the hurricane though; the rest were in the evacuation or cleanup or other Rita-related incidents not involving the weather. CrazyC83 05:38, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Currently" 

message: While this article is one of the best hurricane articles put out by Wikipedia, some sections are still very lacking, notably the Rescue and relief operations section and the Refineries section. If we are to attempt to get this article featured on the main page, those sections will need to be improved. Additionally, many parts of teh article have awkward wording, so any improvements in wording would also be wonderful contributions. - Cuivienen 04:19, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: With the season being over, I think many sections of the article need major work.  This is no longer a current event and the tense is wrong in many places.  Much of this work should probably wait on the TCR, however, or it'll just have to be duplicated. Jdorje 07:40, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sections that Need Improvement 

message: Nowhere that I can see does it say what day Rita made landfall. Jdorje 05:26, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, by searching for September 24, you can see it is not mentioned.  The storm history should have a whole paragraph on the landfall... Jdorje 17:00, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Landfall needs to be mentioned in the storm history.  Information about how long individual locations suffered hurricane- or major-hurricane-force winds probably deserves to go into the impact section. — jdorje (talk) 18:45, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Landfall? 

message: Considering what a debacle the Hurricane Rita evacuation was, perhaps it deserves its' own article?  The main article seems messy to me.  
Millions of people were stranded on the highways with empty gas tanks in 100-degree heat.  That's Houston heat, not Phoenix heat.  Deaths weren't limited to that bus that exploded near Dallas.  The unusually high number of indirect deaths (113) is in large part due to the horrendous evacuation logistics.  Pets died in the extreme heat, many had to abandon their cars where they stalled so they could continue evacuating on foot, and millions of Houstonians returned to their undamaged city with horror stories they will likely never forget.  Horror stories that likely will dissuade many from choosing to evacuate again the next time a major storm strikes - and that would be catastrophic.
At any rate, we should at least do an article on hurricane evacuation in general.  It might come in handy next season.
--SomethingFunny 07:41, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The main article is very messy.  Large portions of it need to be cleaned up.  The evacuation debacle should be put into the preparations section, and only if this section becomes too long should it be split off into a daughter article.  It should also get a brief mention in the intro.  One should not underestimate the insanity of the evacutation - 119 total deaths makes Rita the second-deadliest U.S. hurricane of the last 30 years (since Hurricane Agnes). — jdorje (talk) 06:07, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The NHC will not officially recognize that 119 though - they only count the 7 direct deaths... CrazyC83 23:22, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I am glad to see that this section covering the evacuation addressed the gridlock problems in and north of the Golden Triangle (Texas). I would love to find some Texas Gov't article written and include a brief reference here that will reveal the errors made by the authorities (releasing Houston traffic east) and that hopefully, will shed light on this mistake. Let's just hope that doesn't happen again. As a resident of the area I can tell you first hand - that was horrible. JungleCat 17:39, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evacuation issues 

message: These are kind of old, but I just noticed them:  A couple of them reveal what the surface of the sea looks like beneath the clouds. The images are copyrighted, but free to use for non-commercial purposes:  Good kitty 05:45, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cool Images 

message: Hey folks, I added to the evacuations list for Louisiana for Acadia Parish. There was a mandatory evacuation order given at the time for Acadia Parish south of LA-92. Strangely enough, I live in Vermilion Parish, yet I did not receive a mandatory evacyation order, yet the folks 4 miles to the north of me in Acadia Parish received the order. Thankfully, there wasn't any flooding damage for any of us in the area.FlyingCanOpener 02:59, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor edit 

message: I decided to change IR images on infoboxes, if you don't agree feel free to revert them. juan andrés 03:08, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's cool. If the IR images are to be used I think they should be animations like this  Good kitty 02:47, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture on infobox 

message: I find it impossible for Rita to be only a start class. Can't it be upgraded to a B? íslenska hurikein #12(samtal) 00:26, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I find it impossible for Rita to be a B class without more organization and sourcing. Hurricanehink (talk) 00:54, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no way this is start-class anymore...bob rulz 20:06, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Class