Talk:North American ice storm of 1998

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Contents 1 repeating? 2 Inclusion of US 3 Deletion of "Timeline" section 4 Agreement with Merge 5 American Ops? 6 Flooding in the Southern US 7 Canadian collaboration of the week 8 Another Canadian = 9 Article title 10 GA on hold 10.1 GA awarded 11 Public Domain Pictures 12 New article title? 13 Wrong section? 14 Canadian Point of View

[edit] repeating?

We might want to rewrite the seconsd paragraph under "effects": it's a bit self-repeating now. --Circeus 21:24, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Inclusion of US

Although the meterlogical information is Canadian based, should the fact that the storm also affected parts of the States also added? Kanadier 19:13 6 Mar 2005

Obviously. Being from quebec myself, I am likely much more aware of the effects here than south of the border Circeus 22:42, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

i recently spoke to a friend who lived in vermont during this time and told me of his expirences. i can't seem to find any accounts of what happened in the u.s. part of the storm. if anyone has any info on this i think it should be included as well. i'll keep looking--Tainter 21:11, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I know this is a long time after this short discussion, but... this was one of the major local events of my childhood growing up in the Adirondack Mountains in New York's North Country. There were major impacts from this storm in the Plattsburgh/Burlington region especially - Clinton, Franklin, Essex, and St. Lawrence counties were especially hard hit. It wasn't as hard and as long as what occurred in Ottawa and Quebec, but it was significant and severe just the same and should definitely be included in the article. And to answer a gripe from below - yes, the US military did offer assistance to Canada. I'm going to see what I can dig up on both fronts. - RPIRED 03:49, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of "Timeline" section

I deleted a placeholder Timeline section from the article. There was no real content. If somebody has the start of a timeline, feel free to add it, but please don't clutter up the article with placeholders. (This talk page is a good place for placeholders.) - Cafemusique 11:04, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Agreement with Merge

I agree that the Operation RECUPERATION article should be merged into this. Simply put, Op RECUPERATION was part of the response and as such should be treated within the bulk of a larger context. --Esseye 09:16, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

I agree as well. -- Spinboy 21:21, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] American Ops?

If anyone has the names and details of American military operations related to the '98 storm, they should have articles and correspondingly be mentioned within the article... --Esseye 09:19, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

They didn't help, so I don't understand why Canada is helping the US during their hurricanes. -- Spinboy 00:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

We're not talking about Christmas card lists here. Humanitarian aid should not be doled out on the basis of "So what have you done for me lately?", or eventually no one will help out anybody. We send help because it's the right thing to do, and I like to think that's the way we do things here in Canada. SigPig 17:00, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flooding in the Southern US

The same storm also produced major flooding in the southern US, primarily in the Appalachians from Georgia to West Virginia. Should that also get a strong mention on the page (such as a full section), knowing it killed 12 and caused hundreds of millions in damage? CrazyC83 17:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Does said flooding have a separate article already?Circeus 23:33, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

AFAIK, no it does not. CrazyC83 21:29, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian collaboration of the week

Since I knew this was comming up, I started early. I moved the article from 1998 Ice Storm to Ice Storm of January 1998 to fit in more with the new styling. Also note Ice Storm of December 2005. I moved some things around and changed man of the categories. I also fixed up some things on the Ice Storm section of Winter storm. Zhatt 20:52, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Another Canadian =

I'm a meteorologist with Environment Canada from Montreal office that lived and forecasted during the Icestorm of '98. I've modified the description of the phenomena and the event setup. Pierre_cb Feb 4th, 2006.

[edit] Article title

The title of this article, as it stands, is too ambiguous. It would help if there was a location in it (such as, say, North American ice storm of 1998). --Coredesat talk! 00:12, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I was bold and moved it. I'm fixing double redirects, and I'll fix the listing on GAC shortly. --Coredesat talk! 00:20, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

North American Ice Storm is much to vague as Ice Storm can and will happend any where from Oregon/British-Columbia to Virginia/Newfoundland during the winter. A better name would be Eastern Canada and Northern New-York Ice Storm of 1998.Pierre cb 00:36, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

True, but it is less vague than the original title. Perhaps we can discuss moving the article to a better title when it finishes its GAC run. --Coredesat talk! 00:57, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA on hold

This article will be put on hold (for 7 days) until these minor adjustments can be made :

1. Well written?: Pass (but could be better)

2. Factually accurate?: O. K. (missing citations)

3. Broad in coverage?: Pass

4. Neutral point of view?: O. K.

5. Article stability? Pass

6. Images?: Pass

Additional comments :

• Exacerbating the problem was a steep drop in temperature that immediately followed the passage of the freezing rain., did it really exacerbate the problem? if so, a reliable source is needed to confort such a statement.

I was there (in Old Montreal, one of the worst-hit areas) and I can confirm, the drop in temperature made the ice freeze solid. Huge tree branches started to break, and hundreds (if not thousands) of cars were crushed by falling trees, as well as electric wires. The cold created a higher demand to the already overloaded power system, which couldn't handle it (transformers at the Beauharnois power station blew up; this was the last "line of defense" for Montreal). Hugo Dufort

A few references: http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-70-258/disasters_tragedies/ice_storm/ http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/Statcan/16F0021X/16F0021XIB-e.html http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~dominic/storm/stormpics.html http://www.verglas.netc.net/

• IMO, the sentence Prior to the 1998 storm, the last major ice storm to hit Montreal (1986) deposited around 30 to 60 millimetres (1½ to 2¼ inches) of ice. should be part of the Background section but it goes with the rest of this paragraph so I'm not sure ... leave it as it is if you feel like it.
• Giving numbers for For further comparison, the amount of freezing rain falling over the affected area in just these three days was double the average annual amount of freezing rain the area normally receives. would really help the reader figure out what is the amount or freezing rain that hit the region.
• Re-phrasing this line Three weeks after the end of the storm proper, there were still 700,000 people without electricity would be helpful in figuring out why the word proper is used.
• There is a lack of citation for the paragraph :

Three weeks after the end of the storm proper, there were still 700,000 people without electricity. Estimates of material damages reach around $2 billion Canadian for Quebec alone. Overall estimates are around $4-6 billion US for all the areas affected.

• Do rivers of ice really exist or is it a metaphore?
• Point #1 of the Trivia section isn't really notable for the storm's article, maybe it is useful for the band's page.

Lincher 00:35, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

I re-wrote those sections. CrazyC83 03:01, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA awarded

Nice work on the article to bring it to GA status. Keep up the good work, I can see this article has the future to become a FA by an expansion and by finding more references to add material. Good luck with the rest. Lincher 11:27, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Public Domain Pictures

Here is a link to a bank of public domain pictures covering the province of Quebec. Images of the 1998 Ice Storm can be found by making a search with "verglas" as keyword. Hugo Dufort 23:10, 25 October 2006 (UTC) http://www.ccdmd.qc.ca/quebec/

[edit] New article title?

Well, I said earlier that I'd wait to discuss moving this again until after the GAC run, so here I am now. I understand the current title is vague, so would there be any objections to Eastern Canada ice storm of 1998 or something similar? Coredesat 23:35, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Good to change the name to a more precise, but the Ice Storm has touched mostly the corridor between Ottawa and Montreal which is in Central Canada, Eastern canada being more the Maritimes and Newfoudland. On top, it has touched a bit in NY, Vermont, Maine and Nova Scotia. It is difficult then to suggest you a name. Pierre cb 22:21, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

The Quebec province is usually considered as part of "Eastern Canada". Hugo Dufort 23:12, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong section?

Hey all, I believe this line: "which combined with the extreme power outages led to numerous indirect deaths due to carbon monoxide poisoning from generators and other sources as people desperately tried to remain warm.[1]" - which is currently under the 'storm description' title, would be more appropriate under Impacts, as it does not serve as a very good concluding sentence for the storm description. Just a thought.

[edit] Canadian Point of View

I think this article needs some reworking. The problems as I see them are that this article is trying to cover the entire storm yet reports only on the issues facing Canada. I understand that Canada was harder hit, but The United States we very hard hit as well, and this artle seems to swich from North American to Canadian without clearly indicating which it's talking about.65.198.92.73 07:28, 2 January 2007 (UTC)