history and the third deadliest, with 1,833 killed.
29, 2005, Katrina first came ashore at Buras, and then at the Louisiana-Mississippi border, becoming the costliest hurricane in U.S. Hurricane Rita hits the USA Part 1 of 2 23,598 views 70 Dislike Share geoffmackley 346K subscribers Hurricane Rita hits Texas and Louisiana on Sept 24 2005. Both storms at sea reached Category 5 and weakened to Category 3 before making landfall. Hurricane Rita 18-26 September 2005 Richard D. Central time, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image, Rita was a dangerous Category 3 storm, down from the near-record-breaking Category 5 hurricane it was on September 21. Nicknamed Billion-Dollar Betsy because it was the first storm to cause more than $1 billion in damage, the category 3 storm came ashore at Grand Isle, killing 58 in Louisiana and flooding more than 22,000 homes in greater New Orleans.įorty years later, hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused far greater havoc. Fearing the worst, on the heels of Katrina, officials ordered a mass evacuation, which turned out, in many ways, to be more damaging than the storm. 9, 2015, marks the 50th anniversary of Hurricane Betsy. Hurricane Rita made landfall ten years ago today. An exhibition of photographs from the museums permanent collection, the images show the resilience of the people of Louisiana in the face of adversity and their enduring goodwill toward neighbors in times of disaster. Part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which included three of the top ten most intense Atlantic hurricanes in terms of barometric pressure ever recorded, Rita was the seventeenth named storm, tenth hurricane, and fifth major hurricane of the 2005 season.
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