Send news tip to FOXNews.com

Rita - Trail of Devastation

• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP
• AP

• Sept. 24: An American flag whips out of a broken window of the Hibernia bank building in downtown Lake Charles.
• Sept. 24: Debris litters the area around a destroyed business in Lake Charles, La.
• Sept. 24: A Galveston Police officer puts up a barracade around the rubble from a fallen wall in downtown Galveston.
• Sept. 24: Swirling flood waters of Lake Charles lap onto the shore in the port city of Lake Charles, La.
• Sept. 24: Residents are stopped by officials as they try to return home just outside the causeway leading to Galveston.
• Sept. 24: A row of cars flooded by Hurricane Rita in New Orleans.
• Sept. 24: The Industrial Canal levee surrounds the flooded lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans.
• Sept. 24: A broken power line hangs across the street in Galveston, Texas, after Hurricane Rita made landfall.
• Sept. 24: Vehicles are engulfed by floodwaters from Lake Charles in the port city of Lake Charles, La.
• Sept. 24: State police officers clear a downed tree blocking I-10 west near Sulphur, La., following landfall of Rita.
• Sept. 24: A news crew surveys a flooded neighborhood in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
• Sept. 24: Evacuees flee rising floodwaters in Jean Lafitte, La.
• Sept. 24: Rose City police officer Joe Taliaferro checks for theft at the I-10 Fuel Mart in Rose City, Texas.
• Sept. 24: A steady stream of traffic travels south on I-45 in Houston as evacuees head back home.
• Sept. 24: Theresa Perrin is lifted off of a truck after fleeing floodwaters in Jean Lafitte, La.