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Hurricane Rita was the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico and the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. Part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which included three of the top ten most intense Atlantic hurricanes in terms of barometric pressure ever recorded (along with Wilma and Katrina), Rita was the seventeenth named storm ...
Rita Cosby (born November 18, 1964) is a television news anchor for Fox, MSNBC and NewsMax, as well as a best selling author. She is a host on the two-hour news show Saturday Report on Newsmax and a special correspondent for the CBS syndicated program Inside Edition , specializing in interviewing newsmakers and political figures.
West Bank Regional Library: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita damaged 35% of the library, requiring extensive renovations. Westwego Library: Hurricane Katrina damaged 33% of the library, requiring extensive renovations. Revised: October 2008 For more information about the current status of the Library, view the Director's Status Report here. Branches
Hurricane Rita evacuation. The approach of Hurricane Rita towards the United States Gulf Coast in September 2005 triggered one of the largest mass evacuations in U.S. history. Between 2.5 and 3.7 million people evacuated from the Gulf coast, mostly from the Greater Houston area of Texas, with forecasts from the National Hurricane Center ...
Organizations which note threatened status. National Park Service of the United States monitors the status of National Historic Landmark sites, many of which are privately owned. World Monuments Fund covers a top 100 list worldwide, several of which in the United States. For example, following Hurricane Katrina, it lists New Orleans as a whole ...
Romance Writers of America ( RWA) is an American non-profit writers' association founded in 1980. Its mission is to "advance the professional and common business interests of career-focused romance writers through networking and advocacy and by increasing public awareness of the romance genre." Relevant works must be themed around the ...
Rita A. Crundwell (née Humphrey; born January 10, 1953) is the former Comptroller and Treasurer of Dixon, Illinois, from 1983 to 2012, and the admitted operator of what is believed to be the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history. She was fired in April 2012 after the discovery that she had embezzled $53.7 million from the city of Dixon for ...
Typhoon Rita (1975) (T7506, 08W) – affected Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands. Typhoon Rita (1978) (T7826, 29W, Kading) – one of the most intense tropical cyclones ever recorded, caused much damage in the Philippines. Rita has also been used for four tropical cyclones in the southwest Pacific: Cyclone Rita (1964) Cyclone Rita (1971) Cyclone ...