Hurricane Rita struck the Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana border on September 24th, 2005, as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 115 mph. It caused serious damage, including storm ...

The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a record-shattering season, and among the frenzy of storms, Hurricane Wilma topped ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – This week marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Rita, one of the most powerful and destructive storms to ever strike the Gulf Coast. Forming rapidly between Cuba and the Florida ...

Nicole J. Moncrief was caring for her wheelchair-bound mother and her two nieces as Hurricane Rita barreled toward their Lake Charles home 20 years ago. Ahead of previous storms, none of which caused ...

Tim Niggemeyer remembers volunteering 20 years ago to respond to the relief efforts in Texas following Hurricane Rita, just months after Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana and Mississippi. He was ...

SABINE PASS, Texas — Two decades after Hurricane Rita devastated Sabine Pass, the area has transformed through years of rebuilding following one of Southeast Texas's most destructive storms. The ...

Hurricane Rita's landfall launched an exodus from Cameron Parish. In the years after the storm's Sept. 24, 2005, landfall, people, businesses, and resources all began to move away from the southwest ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans, Mercedes Toregano still remembers the brown suitcase she’d packed for what she’d expected to be a few days away. As the storm barreled ...