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Can I urge that we combine the two timelines in this page into one, so for each date we have a list of hurricane events followd by an indented list of political events. This would allow for a better juxtapositioning of information. It would also allow us to interleaf hurricane photos with political photos. --Tagishsimon (talk)
If demand continues to have what actually happened as opposed to the political dimension, then it ought to be renamed, because it is POV to focus on Bush without context of State & Local, and the responsibilities of some government agencies to act without waiting on commands from above.
Currently the first section is about the Hurricane when it first formed, was seen coming, etc. Would it be appropriate to add a section in front of that about history that is relevant to disaster preparedness for the nation and the geographic area affected by Hurricane Katrina, such as Hurricane Pam and efforts to improve the levee system? AlMac|(talk) 18:42, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
this link and its dated sublinks should be useful for this article's progress. Kingturtle 08:01, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that the article seemed a bit lighter than when I last looked at it: Heres the diff. Seems to be some whitewashing regarding earlier dates. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hurricane_Katrina_timeline&diff=23231890&oldid=22893537 -St|eve 21:09, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Why is there an entry for Tuesday, August 30 at 1:30am which starts "CNN reports that the levee on the 17th Street Canal...suffered a two city-block wide breach."?
Shouldn't this more correctly be placed under Monday, August 29, since that is obviously when the breech occurred?
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/t-p/katrina.ssf?/hurricane/katrina/stories/083005catastrophic.html
What is more valuable in the timeline? When something actually occurred, or when it was reported by CNN?
Both can be given.
There is a time line here.
http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline
If history is this hard to record today, with the technology of video cameras, news media, other recording devices, cell phones, the internet.......
Imagine how hard it would have been even 20 years ago. Or 100.
Recorded History simply cannot truely be accurate. Too many people have a vested interest in the official story. We citizens need to act as local historians whenever important events fall in our lap. It should be our primary duty as citizens.
A timeline like this is nearly worthless without extensive references. — jdorje (talk) 05:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
There are lots of numbers (almost 100) that I assume are references, but clicking on them gives me error messages.
"This is a rubbish site"
new stork times
The article has been cleaned up. Mainly checking & reformatting references, and combining the regular & political timelines into one, based on previous discussions on this talk page. Dr. Cash 07:14, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
I have a printed copy of this topic from the end of January. I noticed that a lot of information, particularly with regard to "Aftermath" events on Tuesday, August 30 were removed. The resulting article is now a lot less useful.
Why was so much information, particularly from the day after landfall, purged from the article? Was it inaccurate? Or were there problems finding references?
For an August 30 timeline of events I find the Shreveport Time's timeline much more useful: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051211/NEWS01/512110314/1002/NEWS
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=106&topic_id=22805
More than 15,000 words of info and reports from all kinds of sources found on the 'net as the events were actually unfolding, not including the additional info provided at the links included . . . some of which info was, subsequently deleted from the 'net since it was potentially embarrassing or for whatever reason . . . . —Preceding unsigned comment added by Auralee (talk • contribs) 06:08, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
This comment does not belong in this article without a referenced source:
"As of September 19, the official death toll stood at 973. Mississippi had refused to raise its death toll above 218, or to explain why. Thousands of dead in Mississippi and Louisiana have not been counted, nor have the bodies been retrieved."
Econofire (talk) 12:01, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I have added a citation needed tag to the statement. The TCR makes no direct mention of three landfalls in Louisiana. However, it did say initial landfall in Louisiana near Buras and final landfall on the Louisiana-Mississippi border, but it did not say if it made any landfalls in between. I'm not sure if passing a kilometre over water and then part of its eye making landfall, part of it always over land would count as a landfall, because the coastline is not constant. Although figure 1 in the TCR seems to show three landfalls, it is very difficult to tell for sure if it does because the location circle and the track covers part of it. I have left the information in the article, becasue it is plausible, but I think this might be slightly OR because there is no published direct mention of three landfalls, unless we can get another written source. Thanks. ~AH1(TCU) 16:51, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
When (if ever) did the federal government order a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans? Is this even something they have authority to do? I ask this because the main basis of a lot of anti-Republican criticism is that the feds delayed their (supposed) evacuation order.
When did the state and/or city order a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans? I ask this, because many survivors said they based their decision on whether (and when) to leave on the city and state's evacuation "requests".
The question is who is to blame (beside the people who actually chose to gamble their lives) for not getting people out in time. Around 2,000 people died. Whose fault is this?
Or, more to the point, since this is supposed to be a neutral article, whose fault do the various advocates say it is? We all know that Democrats blame Bush, but what about those who blame the governor and the mayor? Shouldn't we describe this viewpoints as well? (Or should we take sides?) --Uncle Ed (talk) 23:43, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
This article has portions that state something [and then in brackets say that's actually not true], yet neither statement is sourced. No matter what you know to be correct, the key to keeping WP credible is only posting verifiable facts, and citing them if possible. For example, whether a certain use of the military is illegal under whatever act, the article itself is NOT the place to debate the issue. Unless a neutral secondary source or some noteworthy public figure makes such a claim, it's only your opinion, a novel synthesis of existing facts, and not welcome on WP. This article needs tons of work and dedication to get it back in shape.Dcs002 (talk) 05:55, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
The information covered in this article -- which is poorly sourced as is -- is largely covered in Hurricane Katrina's main article. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 23:01, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
The article has a sentence that reads:
While the normal standards for numbering tropical depressions in the Atlantic indicate that the old name/number is retained when a depression dissipates and regenerates, satellite data indicated that a second tropical wave combined with Tropical Depression Twelve north of Puerto Rico to form a new, much more advanced system, which was then designated as Tropical Depression Twelve.
It seems the bolded Twelve should in fact be Ten? Or am I missing something here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hawksocc8 (talk • contribs) 21:30, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
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