The storm surge from Hurricane Rita flooded the fields, turning them into shallow lakes.
My location was hit by Hurricane Rita last year and many of our Partners were displaced.
In 2005, Katrina and Hurricane Rita destroyed 109 oil platforms and five drilling rigs.
So after Hurricane Rita, Cameron joins so many towns and cities wrecked by Hurricane Katrina.
Some of the devastation caused by Hurricane Rita is all but impossible to see by land.
With damage from Hurricane Rita not as catastrophic as originally-feared, the gurus scooped up a bargain.
He's taking an airboat to conduct one of his daily inspections of the cane fields following Hurricane Rita.
They had to clear the way for even more people getting out of the path of Hurricane Rita.
Katrina together with Hurricane Rita, which occurred in the same year, destroyed 109 oil platforms and five drilling rigs.
It's a 180-mile stretch of highway that cuts through the area's marshlands to coastal towns flattened by Hurricane Rita.
Hurricane Rita is still days away, but evacuation plans are already in effect.
W. (Bill) Jasper arrived in Orlando for a convention just as Hurricane Rita was finishing her tear across the state.
As the president's home state of Texas was hit by Hurricane Rita this weekend, gasoline has been in short supply.
To make matters worse, once the streets finally dried out, Hurricane Rita sent more water in to the Lower 9th.
The next day Hurricane Rita hit and it was full again so my wife, Sharon, dropped the gear back off.
New Orleans West (NOW) College Prep opened its doors in central Houston on Oct. 3, 2005 (a week behind schedule due to evacuations for Hurricane Rita).
Of course, many areas along the Gulf Coast are still recovering from last year's awful storms, Hurricane Katrina and the one that came after it, Hurricane Rita.
Weeks after Hurricane Rita smashed into Lake Charles, Louisiana, the curfew has been lifted and 95 percent of the power is restored in Calcasieu Parish, the surrounding area.
GALVESTON, Texas (CNN) -- With Hurricane Rita intensifying as it treks westward through the Gulf of Mexico, the mayor of Galveston declared a state of emergency Tuesday night.
And it says that more than 89, 000 Louisiana households and 45, 044 Mississippi households displaced by Katrina -- and by Hurricane Rita, which hit a month later -- have found longer-term housing solutions.
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Lumbering across the Gulf of Mexico at nine miles an hour, Hurricane Rita is moving faster than the hundreds of thousands trying to get out of her way on jammed Texas highways.
Russel Honore -- the colorful leader of the military's response to Hurricane Katrina -- said that the joint task force mission was nearing its end stage, barring any further destruction from Hurricane Rita.
At the San Antonio headquarters of top U.S. refiner Valero Energy, the emergency command center was alert on Saturday morning, with two dozen executives monitoring the landfall of Hurricane Rita on the Louisiana coast.
Hurricane Katrina roared into already tight oil markets, damaging much of America's oil-pumping and -refining capacity, and another hurricane, Rita, threatened to wreak more havoc along the Gulf coast this week.
Because we all know everyone who lost their home in Hurricane Katrina and Rita lived in a flood plain.
Mr. VOISIN: Many more than we did post-Hurricane Katrina and Rita, yes, ma'am.
In all, about two million residents have been told to leave the Gulf Coast, and despite the lessons of Hurricane Katrina, the evacuation of the largest city in Rita's path, Houston, has not gone well.
And that's the tragedy, is that you have people who have not been settled from the last hurricane, from Katrina, and let's not forget Rita.
The names Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan and Wilma will never grace a hurricane again, according to a committee of the World Meteorological Organization, which retires storm names out of sensitivity to the victims, and for historical, scientific and legal purposes as well.
This is a higher destructive potential than any hurricane observed since 1969, including Category 5 storms like Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Camille, and Andrew.
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