Talk:Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes
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I rewrote this page, adding polish and some references. My rewrite now sounds much like (but perhaps not too much like?) the Tornado Project web reference I added. This isn't surprising, since that page is one of the few resources available discussing the Woodward event and I was quite familiar with it.
The original author of the Wikipedia article obviously used it as reference material. Is the current article different enough from the original to qualify as a "fair use" of the material? I think so, but am not completely comfortable. Any opinions are welcome.
Brian Rock 01:52, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Any description has to be similar, since the two pages are covering the same event at about the same level of detail. There are a few minor changes that might make the Wikipedia article a bit smoother and remove a few more similarities. I'll go ahead and make those that occur to me.
- One of those changes is to remove the comment about estimated deaths, just caling it an estimate flags the number as different from the other reported fatalities. Lou I 17:10, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Ok, Lou I. Thanks.
Brian Rock 23:56, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I recently found a letter my mother-in-law wrote describing her experience of the Woodward tornado. You can find it at: http://www.ilind.net/gallery_old/tornado_ltr/
I live in this neck of the woods, and my understanding has always been that the tornado passed well south of Shattuck (6 miles or so), which, if you look at the map and figure the likely path from Higgins to Woodward makes a good deal of sense. I suspect the deaths in Shattuck-Gage-Fargo to have been "near" those towns, not in them, as they are north of that line by a fair bit. In fact, the NWS page referenced shows the towns were not hit, and the storm passed SSE of them. As such, I modified the article to reflect that.Ashtur 18:54, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
