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Texas Governor Rick Perry issues a proclamation underscoring the threat of Hurricane Rita and urges the evacuation of residents in coastal areas. [17]: 1 Galveston County officials order the mandatory evacuation of coastal communities; the order is the first mandatory evacuation order in Texas in response to Hurricane Rita.
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 ...
September 23, 2005 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on the border between Louisiana and Texas on September 23. [105] In preparation for its landfall, the largest evacuation in United States history takes place , with over 3 million people evacuating inland. [ 106 ]
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.
The traffic jams that thousands of motorists experienced in South Carolina while fleeing Hurricane Floyd and Texas while fleeing Hurricane Rita exemplify the frustration of people trying to evacuate. Some jurisdictions have implemented contraflow lane reversal plans in an attempt to increase outbound traffic capacity from coastal areas, but ...
At least 224 people rescued in Texas as rivers flood to Hurricane Harvey levels, with more rain forecasted ... A total of 1,000 homes are in a mandatory evacuation zone in the county, Polk County ...
Galveston, parts of southern Houston and areas south of the city and near the Texas coast were under a mandatory evacuation order starting at noon September 11. [13] News vans at the Texas Department of Public Safety in Austin for a news conference about Hurricane Ike. The state's emergency operation center is located in the DPS building.
POLK COUNTY, Texas (KETK) – A mandatory evacuation order was issued and put into effect immediately for areas of Polk County on Monday as a disaster declaration was issued. According to the ...