Talk:Hurricane Betsy/Archive 1

Archive 1

Track similar to Andrew?

They both started in about the same place, and both crossed Florida and then went into Louisiana, but the weird loops, and the long northern trek that Betsy took makes me question this statement:

Hurricane Andrew in 1992 also followed a very similar path.

Comments? DavidH 04:21, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, lots of devastating hurricanes have struck both South Florida and the Mississippi River Delta, including the 1926 Miami Hurricane and the 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane and Hurricane Katrina. I wouldn't say Betsy was any more alike to andrew than any given 2 of those 5 hurricanes are alike. Jdorje 00:33, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Category Confirmation

Is it at all possible Betsy was a category five? It reached 155mph, one mph away from five. I was just wondering since it occured in the early stages of accurate hurricane tracking. Cyclone1 19:46, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

It's certainly possible. However, the 155 mph figure is an estimate. It is also possible the estimate was too high, due to the somewhat infancy of the reconaissance program. Hurricanehink 20:19, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Deaths

Can we have a deaths-by-state table? http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdeadlyapp1.shtml lists FL and LA as the states of note. — jdorje (talk) 05:03, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Katrina

"Betsy is often compared to 2005's Hurricane Katrina"

You mean in the last week? Give me a f***ing break. Let's wait for some time to pass before we say what is often compared to what, eh? --68.253.253.62 18:57, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Yes it was compared, but Katrina was far worse. CrazyC83 04:42, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

It would be more appropriate to compare Katrina to Hurricane Camille in 1969, which made landfall in approximately the same two areas: the mouth of the Mississippi River and the gulf coast of Mississippi. While Camille was a more powerful storm, it was not as large as Katrina, therefore its damage was contained within a smaller land area. But the same cities that were virtually erased by Katrina -- Waveland, Pass Christian, Bay St. Louis, Biloxi and Gulfport -- had suffered a similar fate during Camille. --MattButts 11:48, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Todo

First think is probably references. Jdorje 00:33, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't even mention impact in Florida. I lowered it to start. Hurricanehink (talk) 02:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Here's a pic of the storm over the western Atlantic Ocean. Hurricanehink (talk) 03:39, 4 November 2006 (UTC)