Tag Archives: Remembering Hurricane Rita 15 years ago

Hurricane Rita swirled toward the Gulf Coast as a 165-mph, category 5 storm 15 years ago. More than 1.3 million people in Texas and Louisiana were evacuated, with many stuck on the roads for hours and hours in gridlocked traffic. In 2018, meteorologist Travis Herzog shared his memory from that time: “Houston and Galveston dodged the worst of the devastating …

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