Rita in Pictures and Video
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Hurricane Rita made landfall early Saturday morning along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm, leaving flooding, fires and massive power outages in its wake.
A thousand words can't convey the impact of a single picture. Following are photographs and video that have been collected along the way.
Photo Essays:
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• Aerial Views of Damage
• Storm Subsides
• Trail of Devastation
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• Rita's Landfall
• New Orleans Flooding Again
• Over One Million Flee Rita
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• Rita Attacks Florida
Video:
• Rita Ramifications
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• Bush, Blanco in Baton Rouge
• Impact on Wall Street
• National Plan
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• Serious Damage
• Texas Governor Comments
• Ripple Effect
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• Bush Briefed
• Chief Focus
• Operation Cleanup
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• Path of Destruction
• Levee Animation
• Hurricane Animation
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• Assessing the Damage
• U.S. Well-Prepared
• Refineries Paralyzed
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• Houston Safe
• Tracking Rita
• Staying in Place
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• Storm Fury
• Rita Weakens
• Hurricane Alert
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• New Orleans Swamped
• Powerful Rita
• Lake Charles 'Virtually Empty'
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• 'Say a Prayer for Texas'
• Tracking Rita
• Levees Breached
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• Bush Not Going to Texas
• 'We're Staying'
• Heavy Weather
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• Rita's Calling Card