Talk:December 2013 North American storm complex

Expansion of the article
There's a discussion at WP:Articles for deletion/Toronto blackout (2013) that that article should be merged into this article with that article's subsequent deletion. This article should have a section impact on cities with a subsection for each city and that whole article should turn into the subsection 'Toronto' of this article execpt for the part of the introduction of that article that states that freezing rain added weight to tree branches causing them to fall off with some of them tearing down power lines and that information should instead go into the introduction of this article. Blackbombchu (talk) 18:27, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Incomplete introduction
The sentence 'The ice from the freezing rain built up on tree branches and added so much weight to some of them that they fell off and some of them tore down power lines.' belongs in the introduction, not the 'Ontario' subsection. It would be better to mention the total number of people who went without power in the introduction and just the number of people in Toronto who went without power in the Ontario section. Maybe the total number of people who lost power should be mentioned in the introduction and the number of people in Ontario, not Toronto who lost power should be listed in the Ontario subsection. Blackbombchu (talk) 22:26, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * True, I'll move it to the proper section, also get some info on the Ontario residents without power. ///Euro Car  GT  22:53, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Now it doesn't say anywhere in the article how the ice storm lost power to so many residents. Blackbombchu (talk) 23:46, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Feel free to add that! I'll look into it as well. ///Euro Car  GT  00:59, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Customers versus Residents
It is important to distinguish between "customers", which are basically billing addresses, and "residents", who are actual people. On average, every customer represents about 2.5 residents. The 300,000 customers that lost power in Toronto would therefore represent about 750,000 people without power.
 * That is important. I did change that certain text to residents because no source represents them as customer. ///Euro Car  GT  01:08, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Request for assessment
May I please request someone to request for assessment of this article in Disaster Management, or even better, do it themselves? It would help the article. Thanks. CanadianDude1 (talk) 02:29, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Seems like they are inactive, the page in which lists pages with no assessments is backlogged. So it will take some time. ///Euro Car  GT  02:43, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Images
May anyone introduce images of the ice storm on their effects on trees, power lines, etc.? Thanks. CanadianDude1 (talk) 03:39, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Wikimedia Commons seems to have no storm-related photos except for maps. We'll need to wait for uploading a work found on Flickr or by a bot. ///Euro Car  GT  03:59, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

New Title?
Since this article mentions Canada and the US, I think we should rename the article to 2013 North American ice storm/2013 Canada and US ice storm, or something like that. CanadianDude1 (talk) 18:38, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
 * That could be possible. We'll wait for a consensus. ///Euro Car  GT  21:12, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

No deaths in Canada related to freezing rain
There were no deaths in Canada related to freezing rain from this storm. There was 6 traffic related deaths in Quebec but none were from freezing rain. Since this article is about the "ice storm" that struck "Central and Eastern Canada" none of the none ice storm related deaths or deaths in the US should be counted in this article unless the article is renamed and restructured. 70.53.73.73 (talk) 23:46, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree. We are waiting on a consensus for a new title. CanadianDude1 (talk) 00:01, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I've come here because of a bot notice on the RfC. Wikipedia has several articles on the 2013 storms. If you want this article to remain focused mainly on the storm phenomenon in the Central and Eastern areas of Canada, I'd leave as is. If the article is meant to cover the North American continent, then I'd first look at articles already created and see if you can merge content as perhaps this one October 2013 North American storm complex, and then perhaps rename the merged articles. I'd first get that sorted amongst the editors here and then maybe you won't need an RfC. Malke 2010 (talk) 19:38, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Possible move
I would suggest moving this article to December 2013 North American ice storm or Mid-December 2013 North American ice storm if the former is not specific enough. My reasoning here is that this ice storm also impacted parts of the United States; it was greatly publicized by the media, and I myself remember it. Dustin  talk  22:57, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
 * It has been done. LightandDark2000 (talk) 08:35, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Good! This name is more specific, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to make the move myself. Dustin   talk  12:27, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Locations Impacted
This only refers to the northern impacts of the ice storm, but I m almost certain that this same storm system produced an ice storm in the Central United States (by both latitude and longitude, albeit somewhat more on the southern side) in Oklahoma and possibly nearby areas. Some of these places received over 3/4 an inch of ice. Here are some sources: I think some parts of Kansas and/or Missouri were impacted by this same storm as well, but I could not find as many sources, and the impacts don't appear to have been as significant. I think that this is enough evidence. Dustin  talk  19:29, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
 * http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/?n=events-20131220
 * http://www.koco.com/weather/90-stunning-images-from-the-dec-2021-ice-storm/-/9845544/23604592/-/14oj31i/-/index.html
 * http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tsa/?n=weather-event_2013dec20
 * http://www.kjrh.com/news/news-photo-gallery/photo-gallery-deceember-21-2013-ice-storm-photos
 * http://newsok.com/ice-storm-claims-three-lives-in-oklahoma/article/3917041
 * Oklahoma may well have been affected by the same system. We could wait for a consensus to see if we should add the info or not. &#124;Canadian  Dude  1&#124;  16:21, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I support the inclusion of this information. &#124;Canadian  Dude  1&#124;  23:53, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Include snowstorm and severe weather, as well as possible move
I think it may be best if we move this article to "December 2013 North American storm complex" and add additional info regarding the severe weather associated with this as well as the snowstorm. Some may be thinking no, but I have seen the article Early Winter 2006 North American storm complex, and it has stated that it had a variety of severe weather with it, including a snowstorm, a crippling ice storm, and a tornado outbreak, very similar to what this system produced. Thoughts? --MarioProtIV (talk) 00:22, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

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