This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Hurricane Harvey article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.
This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.
A news item involving Hurricane Harvey was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 28 August 2017.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Weather, which collaborates on weather and related subjects on Wikipedia. To participate, help improve this article or visit the project page for details.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Disaster management, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Disaster management on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Disaster managementWikipedia:WikiProject Disaster managementTemplate:WikiProject Disaster managementDisaster management articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject South America, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles related to South America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.South AmericaWikipedia:WikiProject South AmericaTemplate:WikiProject South AmericaSouth America articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject 2010s, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of 2010s on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.2010sWikipedia:WikiProject 2010sTemplate:WikiProject 2010s2010s articles
This article has been rated as Top-importance on the importance scale.
Text has been copied to or from this article; see the list below. The source pages now serve to provide attribution for the content in the destination pages and must not be deleted as long as the copies exist. For attribution and to access older versions of the copied text, please see the history links below.
Latest comment: 4 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion
@Jasper Deng: Hurricane Harvey is primarily notable for dumping torrential rains on Houston and the surrounding areas, thereby causing immense damage. While it caused a record amount of damage, it did that by dumping all that rain and doing all that damage. When we write about other things - like the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, or the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, we generally start off by stating what the event was (a massive megathrust earthquake, a category 5 hurricane, whatever), then the damage it did, then conclude by noting it caused a record amount of damage as a consequence of that. Starting off with "it set these records" is putting the cart in front of the horse - we should first explain what it was and what damage it did, because that is what made it notable, and then note the record afterwards. When someone is looking up Hurricane Harvey, the first thing they're going to want to know is "Why was this important?" and the answer is "Because it caused massive damage by flooding Houston." Titanium Dragon (talk) 04:21, 4 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
Except, the infobox to the right pretty much gives all the essential meteorological details such as being Category 4 and the page title makes readers know it was a hurricane. This is indicated much more prominently in tropical cyclone articles than in other disaster articles so the comparison with earthquakes and tsunamis is not valid. This practice is followed in nearly every tropical cyclone article I have read, including a few good articles.--Jasper Deng(talk)05:19, 4 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
Personally, I agree with Jasper as stating that Harvey was a Category 4 hurricane kind of undermines the introduction. I mean, for Hurricane Michael, we start off with its intensity records and damage statistics, so why shouldn't Harvey be the same? We should probably do the same with Katrina, which had its introduction edited too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JoeMT615 (talk • contribs) 03:17, 10 December 2019 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hi. This is re: "However, the increase was not as extensive as Hurricane Katrina due to the development of more fuel-efficient vehicles as well as fracking technology having been refined since Katrina to allow oil drilling in shale areas such as the Marcellus Formation.[85]" The citation doesn't support the portion of the sentence that is "due to the development of more fuel-efficient vehicles as well as fracking technology having been refined since Katrina to allow oil drilling in shale areas such as the Marcellus Formation." I recommend ending the sentence after "Hurricane Katrina." An additional problem with the balance of the sentence, besides not source-supported, is that the Marcellus formation produces natural gas and not oil. Without getting too deep in the weeds of the complexity of the workings of the U.S. energy portfolio and infrastructure, I'll just leave it there. Thanks.
RobertaBoucher (talk) 18:55, 6 September 2019 (UTC)RobertaBoucher, 9-6-19Reply
NCDC has $41 billion. This source has $27B for Harris and Galveston counties. Insured damage in the state was $20 billion. Considering Louisiana damage was around $75 million per NCDC, it's likely most of the $125B occurred in Texas, but I'd still like a more reliable damage total, someone saying that with confidence (and not an estimate immediately after the storm). This site, for instance, mentions a $180 Billion damage total in Texas, but that's an overestimate. The same source indicated Texas Governor Abbott requested $61 billion in recovery funds. This source from Texas A&M says $125B in damage occurred in Texas, which cited this news report that mentions the US damage total at $125B (and not Texas specifically). So that's what I got. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 01:47, 20 November 2020 (UTC)Reply
@ChessEric:-whats more reliable, something that may be off by like, a billion dollars at most, or something that is likely only 1/3 of the damage it did in Texas. Why not $124.925 billion(which subtracts the $75 million from louisiana). HurricaneTracker495 (talk) 23:30, 20 November 2020 (UTC)Reply
Hurricane Harvey was the costliest tropical cyclone on record (tied with Hurricane Katrina of 2005), inflicting roughly $125 billion in damage across the Houston metropolitan area and Southeast Texas. from our MH article. --HurricaneTracker495 (talk) 00:27, 21 November 2020 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion
The video that is included with this subsection is of a rescue in Beaumont, Texas. Beaumont is not in the Houston metropolitan area either in the vernacular, or in the linked metropolitan statistical area. Beaumont is further to the east than the easternmost counties of the area (Chambers/Liberty), outside the counties included in the broad Houston-Woodlands-Sugar Land-Baytown MSA (which is linked and can be referenced, with map), and certainly outside what people would commonly refer to as the metro area. Can someone please replace this with a picture from the actual Houston area flooding? There are innumerable images, I am sure. It's a nice video, it just doesn't belong in this subsection.12.11.127.253 (talk) 20:46, 31 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Hello IP editor--I've moved the video down to the section on Beaumont. You are correct that there are a lot of photos of the impacts of Harvey on the Houston area--there are so many, in fact, that I do not have a clue what to replace the video with. There are about 350 photos available at commons:Category:Effects of Hurricane Harvey in Houston. If you see a photo in that category that you'd like to use in this article, I'll be happy to add it in for you. Aoi (青い) (talk) 20:55, 31 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 10 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.
Please add Burners Without Borders,a non profit associated with Burning Man, spent September, October and parts of November doing volunteer clean up work with over 100 volunteers some staying for a full month. They were located on the western edge of Harvey's landfall helping mostly the elderly and handicapped removing debris and clearing damaged trees. There work saved these people who could not afford the expense several hundred thousand dollars. 2600:1700:2F01:9CF0:C5BD:8CD7:42EC:2082 (talk) 22:30, 26 October 2023 (UTC) I was there for a full month doing physical labor and saw this.Reply