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Hurricane Rita was the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico and the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. Part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which included three of the ten most intense Atlantic hurricanes in terms of barometric pressure ever recorded (along with Wilma and Katrina), Rita was the seventeenth named storm, tenth ...
Hurricane Rita was the first storm to make landfall on the U.S. following Hurricane Katrina, [9]: 1179 which had caused widespread destruction in Louisiana and Mississippi less than a month prior. [ 1 ] [ 9 ] : 1183 Rita was first designated as a tropical depression by September 18, 2005, east of the Turks and Caicos .
September 24, 2005 – Hurricane Rita made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on the Texas-Louisiana border with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph. Devastaing storm surge destroyed coastal communities in Cameron Parish such as Holly Beach, but only one person was killed throughout the state due to mass evacuations which were heeded in the wake ...
The Galveston Hurricane. Year: 1900. Death Toll: 6,000–12,000. Financial Impact: ... With winds reaching 156 mph, this hurricane caused storm surges of 8 to 12 feet in Louisiana. It continued ...
Hurricane Rita swirled toward the Gulf Coast as a Category 5 monster as more than 1.3 million people in Texas and Louisiana were evacuated. Remembering Hurricane Rita 14 years ago [Video] Skip to ...
This list of United States disasters by death toll includes disasters that occurred either in the United ... Hurricane Rita: Tropical cyclone Louisiana: $18,500,000,000
The consequences of climate change are already taking a toll on some U.S. communities. In Cameron, Louisiana, hope comes from a natural gas plant that activists call a "carbon bomb."
Hurricane Katrina: Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama: 2005 Hurricane: 120 $10 billion (2005 USD) Hurricane Rita: Louisiana, Texas: 2005 Hurricane: 15 $2.5 billion (2005 USD) Hurricane Dennis: Florida, Southeastern U.S 2005 Tornado: 25 $92 million Evansville Tornado of November 2005: Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio: 7 tornadoes 2004 ...