Katrina is remembered as the big storm of the 2005 hurricane season, but there was also Rita, another major hurricane that made landfall near the Texas/Louisiana border on this day 20 years ago. At one point, Rita had maximum sustained winds of 180 mph as it took aim on the Gulf Coast. Coming less than a month after Katrina, Rita prompted the largest evacuation in U.S. history. Unfortunately, gridlock led to the deaths of more than 100 people, while only 7 deaths were directly contributed to the

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