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The article's almost there, just needs a little more info and a better introduction (no need to mention exact dates, but we should know where it struck!) Jdorje 21:26, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Hmm, that's all for now ;-). These are things that would have to be addressed I think before an FAC. — jdorje ( talk) 02:55, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Officials recommended citizens in portions of the New Jersey coastline, an area that rarely experiences hurricanes, to evacuate. Cape May County, the most vulnerable part of the state and among the most susceptible in the entire country, would require 36 hours to evacuate the 100,000 citizens and 900,000 tourists that were commonly present during busy summer weekends. [8] 397 unofficial shelters existed in the county in 1985 for the preparation of Hurricane Gloria, of which 150 were located on boardwalks; if the hurricane were to strike, only a small area in the northwest part of the county would be safe from the storm surge. Due to the vulnerability of the county, an evacuation of the entire county would be required to avoid significant human losses. [9]
<---- Got it. Hurricanehink 04:22, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Can we have a deaths-by-state table? — jdorje ( talk) 06:09, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Someone on the FAC subpage that there should be a picture of the storm at peak intensity. That is a little hard to do, but there are a few options.
I personally vote for the third one. If anyone has anything better, post it here. Hurricanehink 20:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
OK, there it is. If it were brightened, you could probably see Florida and Cuba, which I think is pretty important. Hurricanehink 20:16, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations, everyone, we have another one. — Cuivi é nen, Monday, 3 April 2006 @ 12:05 ( UTC)
I've removed this addition from the article, as it seems mostly irrelevant:
What does everyone else think? Tito xd( ?!?) 02:56, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Don't know where to add it, but interesting indeed:
"Trapped birds are sometimes seen circling in the eye, and ships trapped in a hurricane report hundreds of exhausted birds resting on their decks. The landfall of hurricane Gloria (1985) on southern New England was accompanied by thousands of birds in the eye."
National Weather Service (
October 19,
2005).
"Tropical Cyclone Structure". JetSream - An Online School for Weather.
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 2006-12-14. {{
cite web}}
: Check date values in: |date=
(
help)
Tito xd( ?!?) 22:59, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
When gauging the impact of $900 million in damage in 1985 to what it might be today given the inflation of recent times, rounding the value of the damages to the nearest billion overstates it immensely, making it look like $1.6 billion in 2005 is worth $2 billion in 2006! (The dollar has done terribly in recent days, but there wasn't 25% inflation last year; people would be rioting in the streets!) I added three decimal digits to the "inflated" figure so that it is in millions like the original number. OTOH, if the "900 million" only has one digit of accuracy, this number should probably be rounded to "1,700 million", so if someone wants to do that, go ahead and change "inflated" to "1". Heian-794 12:50, 15 March 2007
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The original copy of this article needed correction. All the information about New England impacts in Rhode Island and Massachusetts was incorrect.Where the article states: "Gloria did not pass close enough to Rhode Island and Massachusetts to cause significant damage" is incorrect.The article goes on to correctly tally dmagae in Maine....obviously the storm went through Massachusetts to reach Maine.Gloria's afore-mentioned lop-sided windfield was exaggerated in the eastern sector which is the very sector which tore across Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts (especially the area just west and north of Buzzards Bay).Many of the numerous wind reports of hurricane force winds came from the southeastern New England area.Long term power failures in eastern and southeastern Massachusetts kept much information from making a true picture of what had happened a particular problem especially noted after hurricane Bob (1991) in the same vicinity when early reports of moderate damage later gave way to reports and severe damage. Gloria was experienced as a full category one hurricane in all of Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.
This article SHOULD read: There was some significant wind damage in Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts to roofs,some of which blew off (South Kingston,Rhode Island and New Bedford,Massachusetts) and many trees were downed. Some coastal towns were without power up to five days (Westport,Massachusetts). Inland areas saw a considerable amount of vegetation damage,especially the Worcester,Massachusetts area.
Winds gusted to 112mph at New London,Connecticut,104mph at Padanaram,Massachusetts,and over 90mph at New Bedford,Massachusetts.Estimated gusts around 100 mph occured in the Worcester,Massachusetts location. Sarahbishopv 02:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
The cross referencing fot this information:
newspapers:
The Providence Journal Sept.28-30 1985
New Bedford Standard Times Sept.28-Oct.1 1985
Boston Herald Sept.28-30 1985
Boston Globe Sept.28-30 1985
publications:
NHC: Preliminary Report:Hurricane Gloria:September 1985.
New England Hurricanes 1635-1996:A Technical Report.Bishop-Valentine,S. 1996
Weather Observatory Records:
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory:Sept.27 1985: Milton,Massachusetts
Sarahbishopv
02:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
The article mentions Blue Hill, Connecticut as a redlink, but I didn't find evidence of such a place on Google. Did you mean Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in Massachusetts? Or is it Blue Hills (Bloomfield, Connecticut)? Art LaPella ( talk) 03:28, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Apparently the requirements for FA in 2006 were below the current GA standard. I added pub years to the references, and fixed a broken ref link. If this was a problem, there could be additional issues within this article. Thegreatdr ( talk) 16:44, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
File:Sunday Newsday Sept. 29 1985 Gloria Cover.jpg is a non-free image being used in this article. It present lacks a non-free use rationale and it seems questionable to me whether a valid one could be written. In particular, use of the image seems to fail non-free content criterion #8:
"Contextual significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding."
The image does not convey any information which cannot be (and is not) conveyed by a sentence of text, and the presence of multiple informative free images in the article makes the use of this file even less essential.
I have tagged the image for deletion under speedy deletion criterion F6 (missing non-free use rationale), and the image may be deleted in seven days if a valid rationale is not provided. If I have overlooked a way in which this image does "significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic", I hope it will be pointed out during the seven-day waiting period. -- Black Falcon ( talk) 19:37, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
"This is the second lowest pressure ever recorded in an Atlantic hurricane that never reached Category 5 status, only second to Hurricane Opal of the 1995 season." - this was in the article, but it was unsourced. The above backs this up, but it cites Wikipedia, so we can't use that. I'll add it back in if I can get a source that states it explicitly that doesn't use us. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk) 22:09, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
As we near the 30 year anniversary, I was looking, and I was stationed in Charleston, South Carolina at this time. The US Navy sortied all capable ships out of Charleston several days beforehand. Unknown if perhaps Norfolk also did so. Also as I recall, most businesses closed down mid-day on Thursday around 10 AM expect much worse. Wfoj3 ( talk) 00:39, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
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The article's almost there, just needs a little more info and a better introduction (no need to mention exact dates, but we should know where it struck!) Jdorje 21:26, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Hmm, that's all for now ;-). These are things that would have to be addressed I think before an FAC. — jdorje ( talk) 02:55, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Officials recommended citizens in portions of the New Jersey coastline, an area that rarely experiences hurricanes, to evacuate. Cape May County, the most vulnerable part of the state and among the most susceptible in the entire country, would require 36 hours to evacuate the 100,000 citizens and 900,000 tourists that were commonly present during busy summer weekends. [8] 397 unofficial shelters existed in the county in 1985 for the preparation of Hurricane Gloria, of which 150 were located on boardwalks; if the hurricane were to strike, only a small area in the northwest part of the county would be safe from the storm surge. Due to the vulnerability of the county, an evacuation of the entire county would be required to avoid significant human losses. [9]
<---- Got it. Hurricanehink 04:22, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Can we have a deaths-by-state table? — jdorje ( talk) 06:09, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Someone on the FAC subpage that there should be a picture of the storm at peak intensity. That is a little hard to do, but there are a few options.
I personally vote for the third one. If anyone has anything better, post it here. Hurricanehink 20:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
OK, there it is. If it were brightened, you could probably see Florida and Cuba, which I think is pretty important. Hurricanehink 20:16, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations, everyone, we have another one. — Cuivi é nen, Monday, 3 April 2006 @ 12:05 ( UTC)
I've removed this addition from the article, as it seems mostly irrelevant:
What does everyone else think? Tito xd( ?!?) 02:56, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Don't know where to add it, but interesting indeed:
"Trapped birds are sometimes seen circling in the eye, and ships trapped in a hurricane report hundreds of exhausted birds resting on their decks. The landfall of hurricane Gloria (1985) on southern New England was accompanied by thousands of birds in the eye."
National Weather Service (
October 19,
2005).
"Tropical Cyclone Structure". JetSream - An Online School for Weather.
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 2006-12-14. {{
cite web}}
: Check date values in: |date=
(
help)
Tito xd( ?!?) 22:59, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
When gauging the impact of $900 million in damage in 1985 to what it might be today given the inflation of recent times, rounding the value of the damages to the nearest billion overstates it immensely, making it look like $1.6 billion in 2005 is worth $2 billion in 2006! (The dollar has done terribly in recent days, but there wasn't 25% inflation last year; people would be rioting in the streets!) I added three decimal digits to the "inflated" figure so that it is in millions like the original number. OTOH, if the "900 million" only has one digit of accuracy, this number should probably be rounded to "1,700 million", so if someone wants to do that, go ahead and change "inflated" to "1". Heian-794 12:50, 15 March 2007
______________________________________________________________________________
INCORRECT ARTICLE:
The original copy of this article needed correction. All the information about New England impacts in Rhode Island and Massachusetts was incorrect.Where the article states: "Gloria did not pass close enough to Rhode Island and Massachusetts to cause significant damage" is incorrect.The article goes on to correctly tally dmagae in Maine....obviously the storm went through Massachusetts to reach Maine.Gloria's afore-mentioned lop-sided windfield was exaggerated in the eastern sector which is the very sector which tore across Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts (especially the area just west and north of Buzzards Bay).Many of the numerous wind reports of hurricane force winds came from the southeastern New England area.Long term power failures in eastern and southeastern Massachusetts kept much information from making a true picture of what had happened a particular problem especially noted after hurricane Bob (1991) in the same vicinity when early reports of moderate damage later gave way to reports and severe damage. Gloria was experienced as a full category one hurricane in all of Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.
This article SHOULD read: There was some significant wind damage in Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts to roofs,some of which blew off (South Kingston,Rhode Island and New Bedford,Massachusetts) and many trees were downed. Some coastal towns were without power up to five days (Westport,Massachusetts). Inland areas saw a considerable amount of vegetation damage,especially the Worcester,Massachusetts area.
Winds gusted to 112mph at New London,Connecticut,104mph at Padanaram,Massachusetts,and over 90mph at New Bedford,Massachusetts.Estimated gusts around 100 mph occured in the Worcester,Massachusetts location. Sarahbishopv 02:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
The cross referencing fot this information:
newspapers:
The Providence Journal Sept.28-30 1985
New Bedford Standard Times Sept.28-Oct.1 1985
Boston Herald Sept.28-30 1985
Boston Globe Sept.28-30 1985
publications:
NHC: Preliminary Report:Hurricane Gloria:September 1985.
New England Hurricanes 1635-1996:A Technical Report.Bishop-Valentine,S. 1996
Weather Observatory Records:
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory:Sept.27 1985: Milton,Massachusetts
Sarahbishopv
02:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
The article mentions Blue Hill, Connecticut as a redlink, but I didn't find evidence of such a place on Google. Did you mean Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in Massachusetts? Or is it Blue Hills (Bloomfield, Connecticut)? Art LaPella ( talk) 03:28, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Apparently the requirements for FA in 2006 were below the current GA standard. I added pub years to the references, and fixed a broken ref link. If this was a problem, there could be additional issues within this article. Thegreatdr ( talk) 16:44, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
File:Sunday Newsday Sept. 29 1985 Gloria Cover.jpg is a non-free image being used in this article. It present lacks a non-free use rationale and it seems questionable to me whether a valid one could be written. In particular, use of the image seems to fail non-free content criterion #8:
"Contextual significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding."
The image does not convey any information which cannot be (and is not) conveyed by a sentence of text, and the presence of multiple informative free images in the article makes the use of this file even less essential.
I have tagged the image for deletion under speedy deletion criterion F6 (missing non-free use rationale), and the image may be deleted in seven days if a valid rationale is not provided. If I have overlooked a way in which this image does "significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic", I hope it will be pointed out during the seven-day waiting period. -- Black Falcon ( talk) 19:37, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
"This is the second lowest pressure ever recorded in an Atlantic hurricane that never reached Category 5 status, only second to Hurricane Opal of the 1995 season." - this was in the article, but it was unsourced. The above backs this up, but it cites Wikipedia, so we can't use that. I'll add it back in if I can get a source that states it explicitly that doesn't use us. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk) 22:09, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
As we near the 30 year anniversary, I was looking, and I was stationed in Charleston, South Carolina at this time. The US Navy sortied all capable ships out of Charleston several days beforehand. Unknown if perhaps Norfolk also did so. Also as I recall, most businesses closed down mid-day on Thursday around 10 AM expect much worse. Wfoj3 ( talk) 00:39, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
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