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Latest comment: 2 years 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
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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
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I have struggled to verify that the death toll is 107 as listed. A recent USA Today article says that "Only eight hurricanes have killed more than 100 people since 1950, the last time a storm as deadly as Helene hit the US came in 2017, when Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Houston and was blamed for 103 deaths." That would make 104 when counting the death of the pregnant woman in the village of Jawalla in Guyana.
At the bottom of that article, the word Harvey is linked to this NOAA Tropical Cyclone Report (TCR) that says on page eight: "Harvey is responsible for at least 68 direct deaths4 in the United States, all in Texas. Over half of the deaths (36) were in Harris County in the Houston metro area. A county-by-county listing of the direct deaths is available in Table 4. (...) About 35 additional deaths are ascribed to indirect causes, such as electrocution, motor-vehicle crashes and isolation from necessary medical services. Four people were reported injured by a tornado north of Reform, Alabama." 68 direct deaths plus 35 additional deaths would be 103 deaths.
There is still a catch here. CooperScience edited the article in March 2018 to change the total number of deaths to 107 per a United States WMO report. This report might be after the NOAA TCR which was originally published in January 2018 per a footnote in the report. Additionally, in the edit revision above, a hidden note that no longer exists in the article says <!-- 1 in Guyana, 103 in the US per TCR, +4 indirect not mentioned in TCR--> is included. (As an aside, I have only noticed this while typing this discussion as "Who Wrote That" cannot find or see when hidden notes are in the infobox.) The problem is that I cannot find this report nor does it seem to be linked in the article. A Google search for site:wmo.int Hurricane Harvey report didn't bring it up, nor did Bing. I am hoping that posting this will help to either find the WMO report and verify what it says or otherwise confirm what the death toll was. --Super Goku V (talk) 08:03, 1 October 2024 (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. The article already mentions that Harvey is second-costliest after adjusting for inflation (in the Economic loss estimates subsection). Day Creature (talk) 23:24, 17 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
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Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Cannolis (talk) 02:02, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
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. The article already mentions that Harvey is second-costliest after adjusting for inflation (in the Economic loss estimates subsection). Day Creature (talk) 23:24, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
Done ✶Quxyz✶ (talk) 16:51, 4 July 2026 (UTC)