Rita's Strongest Winds Batter Gulf Coast
Posted on: Saturday, 24 September 2005, 03:00 CDT
BEAUMONT, Texas - Hurricane Rita plowed into the Gulf Coast early Saturday, lashing Texas and Louisiana with driving rain, igniting the pre-dawn sky with exploding transformers and threatening to flood the low-lying region.
Rita made landfall at 3:38 a.m. EDT as a Category 3 storm just east of Sabine Pass, on the Texas-Louisiana line, bringing with it a 20-foot storm surge and up to 25 inches of rain, the National Hurricane Center said.
Its 12 mph speed spread worries it would dump nearly 2 feet of rain on flood-prone parts of Texas and Louisiana, spurring tornadoes as it churned north-northwest with winds topping 120 mph.
Texas officials breathed a sigh of relief that Rita spared two flood-prone cities a direct hit. "It looks like the Houston and Galveston area has really lucked out," said Max Mayfield, director of the center.
Source: Associated Press/AP Online
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