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Section sizes

Section size for Hurricane Ike (31 sections)
Section name	Byte count		Prose size (words)
Section name	Header	Total	Header	Total
(Top)	5,521	5,521	358	358
Meteorological history	11,653	11,653	900	900
Preparations	18	11,855	0	672
Lucayan Archipelago	1,332	1,332	66	66
Florida	1,472	1,472	153	153
Texas	9,033	9,033	453	453
Impact	324	46,169	0	2,959
Lucayan Archipelago	3,188	3,188	259	259
Haiti	2,049	2,049	155	155
Cuba	3,018	3,018	273	273
United States	2,880	29,734	234	1,892
MV Antalina	1,749	1,749	126	126
Louisiana	4,338	4,338	178	178
Texas	10,137	10,137	705	705
Farther Inland	10,630	10,630	649	649
Canada	6,273	6,273	318	318
Iceland	1,583	1,583	62	62
Aftermath	15	21,338	0	1,498
Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas	1,062	1,062	93	93
Criticism of aid	1,628	1,628	131	131
Public and mental health issues	5,552	5,552	508	508
Sports	2,471	2,471	163	163
Relief efforts	3,543	3,543	126	126
Oil and gas spills	2,746	2,746	243	243
Collision of oil tanker with drilling rig	1,793	1,793	85	85
Retirement	950	950	45	45
Hurricane mitigation	1,578	1,578	104	104
See also	303	303	0	0
Notes	32	32	0	0
References	375	375	0	0
External links	1,120	1,120	0	0
Total	98,366	98,366	6,387	6,387

7th Costliest

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Per , Ike did only $36.9 billion and was 7th costliest. --67.85.37.186 (talk) 15:52, 9 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

Error in Impacts section for Hurricane Ike in Turks and Caicos

Latest comment: 4 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hello! I'm writing a book set in Grand Turk and South Caicos and spotted an error on this page. In the Impacts section it says the Carnival cruise ship terminal that was damaged was located in South Caicos. This is incorrect, it is over in Grand Turk. Recommend you tweak that sentence and move it up before the paragraph shifts to South Caicos. If you want to confirm, the Footnoted hurricane report PDF has this: Among the damaged buildings was Carnival Cruise Line’s two-year old, $60 million cruise ship terminal on Grand Turk. Thank you! 65.255.60.186 (talk) 11:47, 12 June 2022 (UTC) Nick SullivanReply

Thanks for pointing that out! I've changed it accordingly. ~ KN2731 {talk · contribs} 14:51, 13 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Dead link under Preparations > Texas

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hey, to whoever's able to do so --

The link to the NHC bulletin as Citation 39 in the text is a dead link - it redirects to Francine now. Specifically, it's the first citation after this sentence:

The bulletin advised that residents living in single-family homes in some parts of coastal Texas faced "certain death" if they did not heed orders to evacuate.

There's an archived version available on NWS; it's available at https://www.weather.gov/media/hgx/projects/ike08/HGX_Products/HLS/HLSHGX_091108_1641Z.txt - I'd add it myself, but I'm not familiar with citation styles.

Cheers. -R.A.SPITZER [ USER / ALT / TALK / CONTRIBS ] 07:51, 16 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

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