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Section sizes

Section size for Hurricane Ike (31 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	5,311	5,311
Meteorological history	11,577	11,577
Preparations	18	11,904
Lucayan Archipelago	1,435	1,435
Florida	1,472	1,472
Texas	8,979	8,979
Impact	324	45,810
Lucayan Archipelago	3,188	3,188
Haiti	2,048	2,048
Cuba	3,022	3,022
United States	2,876	29,440
MV Antalina	1,749	1,749
Louisiana	4,338	4,338
Texas	10,100	10,100
Farther Inland	10,377	10,377
Canada	6,205	6,205
Iceland	1,583	1,583
Aftermath	15	20,641
Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas	1,062	1,062
Criticism of aid	1,628	1,628
Public and mental health issues	5,551	5,551
Sports	2,471	2,471
Relief efforts	3,409	3,409
Oil and gas spills	2,746	2,746
Collision of oil tanker with drilling rig	1,793	1,793
Retirement	950	950
Future mitigation	1,016	1,016
See also	722	722
Notes	32	32
References	375	375
External links	1,123	1,123
Total	97,495	97,495

7th Costliest

Per [1], 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

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 Sullivan[reply]

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

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There's an archived version available on NWS; it's available at https://www.weather.gov/media/hgx/projects/ike08/HGX_Products/HLS/HLSHGX_091108_1641Z.txt - I'd add it myself, but I'm not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