Talk:Tropical Storm Frances (1998)

Todo
Grammar/Spelling is a major problem. A Texas section and a Louisiana section would be nice for the impact section, provided much more is added. One easy way to have particular sections is dividing meteorological observations between the 2. For example, the first paragraph in the Louisiana section would describe rainfall totals, wind totals, and storm surge, if that occurred. The next section would describe the damage and deaths with detail. More pictures would be nice (here is a rainfall pic), or a damage picture. Hurricanehink 17:27, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I tried to put a Texas and Louisiana section but for some odd reason, the Texas section dissapears when I save the file. Storm05 18:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * That's weird. It worked fine for me. I went ahead and did a copyedit. Hurricanehink 21:27, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

McRae Lake Dam
I don't know if anyone can find an actual news reference, but I can personally attest this storm destroyed the McRae Lake Dam northwest of Conroe in Montgomery County, Texas. Its a relatively minor dam, so far as I know it was just for creating an artificial lake and it was not a hydroelectric dam. This is the lake: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Conroe,+TX&ie=UTF8&ll=30.386981,-95.336695&spn=0.017584,0.040169&t=h&z=15&om=1

The foundation for the dam eroded away and a 15 foot or so section was washed away, greatly accelerating flooding below the dam that was already overflowing.

I moved out of the area in September 2001; the dam was /still/ not repaired by then, but its my understanding it finally has been. I think a dam break, even a minor dam, might be a significant enough event to include if someone could find a news article about it. I've tried googling but haven't found anything. :/ --Chibiabos 23:43, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Improvements
References are now in a similar format throughout the article, and additional information has been added, specifically in the form of a preparations section and expanded impact section for Texas. I think the article finally has enough information for B class. Thegreatdr (talk) 22:17, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Mexico info missing
The article could be in jeopardy of maintaining its GA status. I found some info while researching Javier 98, and it appears that Frances was responsible for $63 million in damage and 229 deaths in Chiapas. Here is the link. Javier had a bit of influence, but the paper says Frances was the primary reason there was the flooding disaster there. Granted, that wasn't from Frances's main circulation, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to have an article on 1998 Chiapas flooding, or something. However, without that info even mentioned, the article isn't complete. Basically, should that info and stuff be counted here, or should it gets its own article? --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 00:31, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll see if I can get to this next Tuesday-Thursday, my next set of days off. If anyone wants to tackle this sooner, feel free.  Thegreatdr (talk) 00:55, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm currently working on an article on the December 1992 nor'easter, but I'll help tackle it later. I'm finally expanding my focus to do more than just TC articles to also include nor'easters and floods :) --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 01:02, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Oooooh. Interesting indeed.  I have a couple GAs in the non-tropical storms project.  It's not much different than the TC project, except for the lack of a unified source (such as NHC).  This does make it more difficult to create articles of the length TC project people might be accustomed to.  Thegreatdr (talk) 01:07, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yea, that was why I wasn't keen on doing on it at first, but I'm fine now not having a unified source. If the events are notable enough, then a unified source isn't needed. There'd likely be great journal reports on them anyway. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 01:10, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * On systems with major impact, yeah, so you won't have to worry about notability. Thegreatdr (talk) 01:12, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

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