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Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal to MRGO acronym needs clarified.

Should add (MRGO) after Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet in the Analysis of New Orleans levee failures section.

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The number of fatalities on the second line of the overall entry should be changed from 1836 to 1392. NOAA revised its earlier estimate (the source of currently cited numbers) based upon new published medical information in later years.

Revised estimates from the NOAA Tropical Cyclone Report provided in the link below (see casualty and damage statistics, page 11).

National Hurricane Center at NOAA, publicly reported in the following report, revised in January 2023: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL122005_Katrina.pdf

Other outdated numbers appear throughout this article and should be brought up to current based upon the revised report. If you agree with the need to update, should I note other instances?

24.206.78.14 (talk) 18:35, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. House Blaster^talk 21:21, 2 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I made a new topic regarding the same issue, as I hadn't seen this was already made. It should clarify what needs to be changed. TheOne01oneO (talk) 17:52, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, using revised estimates from the NOAA Tropical Cyclone Report provided in the link above (see casualty and damage statistics, page 11):

the number of fatalities on the second line of the overall entry should be changed from 1836 to 1392. NOAA revised its earlier estimate (the source of currently cited numbers) based upon new published medical information in later years.

The outdated numbers appear throughout this article and should be brought up to current. Should I note all other instances? 108.26.229.210 (talk) 00:14, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Provide the numbers not say where to find them. Lightoil (talk) 02:42, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I edited the request so that the change x to y format appears first. Joahero (talk) 13:58, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Geardona (talk to me?) 15:31, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

“Costliest tropical cyclone”

When Hurricane Harvey’s total damage was estimated at $125 billion in 2017, why did Katrina’s total damage increase $108 billion to $125 billion? If it’s inflation, why isn’t the total damage for other destructive hurricanes like Andrew or Ivan increased. 35.130.105.90 (talk) 15:38, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The NHC updated Katrina’s estimate to $125B, unadjusted for inflation. With inflation, Katrina caused $155B in damage. Therefore it’s still the costliest tropical cyclone. Damage totals can be difficult to figure out, when considering all of the properties involved. Therefore it’s natural for there to be fluctuations. Hurricanehink mobile (talk) 17:15, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]