Talk:Hurricane Betsy
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[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] Katrina
I think that the comparison to Betsy is quite valid.
In the wake of Katrina it is, if for no better reason than to show the highly questionable results in the so-called "official" Katrina report. I've heard countless times the mantra that had Katrina taken the course Betsy took, it would have been SO much worse! Excuse me? According to the "official report" Katrina was just that, a "Betsy" which swerved slightly east instead of west. The alleged winds in the official report show Katrina as having max windspeeds at landfall comparable (if not slightly LOWER) than those of Betsy, and both were enormous in size and came from the same direction. This leaves one to conclude that either those who say that had Katrina taken a Betsy path it would have truly been doomsday for New Orleans have some serious egg on their face because Betsy WAS a Katrina that took such a path; OR perhaps, just perhaps, they've UNDER classified Katrina. In view of the WIND as well as water damage I've seen, it is almost certainly the former. Katrina, like Andrew, will be revisited with hopefully more realistic data and conclusions! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]]) .
[edit] 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)
[edit] Trivia section
Removed the trivia section. I had put in the statement about loops in Betsy's track at some point. The information about Katrina's track being similar seems confusing, since Katrina originated in the Bahamas, Betsy formed much farther out in the Atlantic. I'm preserving the deleted section here:
Unusually, Betsy's track included not one but two complete loops.
Betsy is comparable to 2005's Hurricane Katrina, which followed a similar path but caused more extensive damage and casualties in New Orleans. Numerous other highly-destructive hurricanes, including Hurricane Andrew, the 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane, and the 1926 Miami Hurricane, have also followed very similar paths.
DavidH 08:52, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 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)
