Total damages resulting from Hurricane Rita amounted to over $10.5 billion (2005 USD), making it the ninth costliest hurricane affecting the United States. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana on August 29, 2005, bringing winds of 140 miles per hour and storm waters that flooded more than 80 percent of New Orleans. There are some obvious signs of damage in the top image, collected by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite on September 27, 2005. BOEMRE estimates that 3,050 of the Gulf's 4,000 platforms and 22,000 of the 33,000 miles of Gulf pipelines were in the direct path of either Hurricane Katrina or Rita resulting in the destruction of 115 platforms, damaged to 52 others damage of 535 pipeline segments, and near total shut-down of the Gulf's offshore oil and gas production. There ... Road damage in Costa Rica from Stan and earlier Hurricane Rita was estimated at US$57 million (₡28 billion .

Tropischer Sturm Rita Hurricane Rita Satellitenbilder des NASA Earth Observatory: Hurricane Rita Roars through a Warm Gulf(NASA, 22.09.05) Hurricane Rita(NASA, 25.09.05) Hurricane Rita Floods the U.S. Gulf Coast(NASA, 26.09.05) Hurricane Damage: Sabine Pass, TX(NASA, 29.09.05) Weitere Satellitenbilder: Blicke auf Rita(Wetterzentrale) Hurricane Rita Rita " was the second major hurricane to strike the Louisiana coast this season ( " Katrina " was the first) and the third most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin.
Rita " was the second major hurricane to strike the Louisiana coast this season ( " Katrina " was the first) and the third most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. hurricane near the Texas/Louisiana border, Rita produced significant storm surge that devastated coastal communities in southwestern Louisiana, and its winds, rain, and tornadoes caused fatalities and a wide swath of damage from eastern Texas to Alabama. The news of Hurricane Rita less than a month after Hurricane Katrina triggered a massive evacuation in the states of Texas and Louisiana. Beaumont and the Neches River were also almost directly in Hurricane Rita’s path when it came ashore on September 24, 2005. Unnamed Subtropical Storm. Hurricane Rita hit the Texas and Louisiana coast early on Saturday local time. Although weaker than feared, the storm sparked a 4.6m (15ft) surge which flooded towns along the Louisiana coastline. Tragically, more than 1,800 people lost their lives and damages across the Gulf Coast topped $108 billion.