In late August 2020, Ashlee Guidry and her staff kept a wary eye on guidance from local officials as Hurricane Laura passed ...

Sabine Pass ISD superintendent Kristi Heid has lived in Southeast Texas her entire life but says nothing prepared her for Rita's impact.

Sabine Pass ISD superintendent Kristi Heid has lived in Southeast Texas her entire life, but says nothing prepared her for Rita's impact.

With storms intensifying faster, officials consider widening shoulders for emergency travel lanes, though costs and ...

Hurricane Rita hit on Sept. 24, 2005, just weeks after Hurricane Katrina. Cameron Parish was flooded, thousands were without power and evacuees from both storms filled ArkLaMiss shelters. Cotton ...

Allen vividly remembers the mark Rita left on East Texas. “That was the first time that Jasper County historically realized that if we are in the bullseye of a hurricane, it’s going to be just as ...

The Category 3 storm brought a nearly 18-foot surge and dumped 16 inches of rain. It caused over $18.5 billion worth of ...

Days like these, I wish I could go back and meet you on that muddy chenier. The data to pore over would relate not to war, ...

Two decades after Hurricane Rita struck Louisiana’s coast, residents in Vermilion Parish reflect on the storm’s destruction, ...

Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Rita made landfall in Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana as a Category 3 storm. Rita is the strongest storm ever recorded ...

In Cameron Parish alone, Rita was responsible for either destroying or severely damaging 90% of all buildings. 20 years later ...