Talk:Hurricane Katrina
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Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal to MRGO acronym needs clarified.
Should add (MRGO) after Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet in the Analysis of New Orleans levee failures section.
Semi-protected edit request on 26 January 2025
Script error: No such module "protected edit request". Add the word "then" to the line describing the resignation of Micheal Brown an Eddie Compass. the article should speak in the past tense, as this event is old and no longer current.
The emergency response from federal, state, and local governments was widely criticized, leading to the resignation of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael D. Brown and New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) superintendent Eddie Compass.
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The emergency response from federal, state, and local governments was widely criticized, leading to the resignation of then Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael D. Brown and New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) superintendent Eddie Compass. ArchiveJoe3 (talk) 12:33, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for the message, but that extra wording really isn't necessary. We're always referring to "then" on Wikipedia, never to “now”. Think about it this way: If we are discussing the agency's response to a disaster in 2005, the reader can infer that we are also discussing the agency's leadership roles in 2005, not 2025. Larry Hockett (Talk) 13:51, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 6 April 2025
Script error: No such module "protected edit request". Under "Impact", either remove:
"However, in February 2021, a severe winter storm struck the United States, causing a major power failure in Houston, which caused at least $195 billion (2021 USD) in damage in Texas. It surpassed both Katrina and Harvey to become the single-costliest natural disaster recorded in the United States."
entirely and change nothing else or remove entirely and change:
"The storm surge also devastated the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama, making Katrina one of the most destructive hurricanes, the costliest natural disaster in the history of the United States (tied with Hurricane Harvey in 2017),[43] and the deadliest hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane."
to:
"The storm surge also devastated the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama, making Katrina one of the most destructive hurricanes and one of the costliest natural disasters in the history of the United States (tied with Hurricane Harvey in 2017),[43] before being surpassed in 2021 by a severe winter storm in Houston, Texas. It is also the deadliest hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane."
I believe adding such detail and emphasis about the winter storm in Texas adds no relevancy to the article or section and may even detract from the significance of Hurricane Katrina. Wikilux97 (talk) 19:44, 6 April 2025 (UTC)
- File:Yes check.svg Done I deleted the extraneous sentence about the Texas winter storm and rewrote the other sentence. Day Creature (talk) 16:58, 7 April 2025 (UTC)
