Hurricane Rita pictures

southerngale · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:48 pm

Some of the pics were taken right after, others a few weeks, a month and some a few months afterward. I can't possibly post all of them and as said in many other places, it's just not the same thing when looking at the damage through pictures. I took some of these and others were taken by other area residents and a few from the newspaper, etc.

Before Rita arrived

Beaumont Municipal Airport

Various Beaumont, Tx homes (many sights like these)

Hollywood Theater at Parkdale Mall in Beaumont

Target in Beaumont

Rebuilding Target

Mattress Warehouse in Beaumont

Elks Lodge

Elegante Hotel in Beaumont (formerly called Hilton)

Jack in the Box in Beaumont

Kinkos in Beaumont

Johnson's Express Lube in Beaumont - cleaning up

MLK Parkway in Beaumont (near Lamar University) - several days after Rita

Ace Lumber in Beaumont

Oldest tree in Beaumont split in two

Lots of close calls in Beaumont

Sonic in Beaumont

Covels in Beaumont

St. Anthony Roman Catholic Cathedral Landmark in Beaumont

Christian Fellowship Church in Beaumont

Thanksgiving Picnic in Beaumont

A few from Port Arthur, Tx.

Port Arthur's finest

H&R Block

A little humor

Pleasure Island, Tx

A few from Nederland, Port Neches, Port Acres and Groves, Tx. area

Port Acres store

Port Neches gas station

Shire Apts.

Vidor, Tx.

Vidor Family Dollar

Vidor Church of Christ

Pine Forest Baptist Church in Vidor

Orange, Tx.

Orange First Baptist Church Est. 1857

Don't see this everyday

Bridge City (Tx) Frame and Art

United Pentecostal Bridge City

Sabine Pass, Tx.

Fisherman's Wharf

Sabine Pass home (most structures totally destroyed)

House was gutted and declared a total loss. Boat in front is from a neighbor's home several blocks away

Sabine Pass Post Office

Way up in Jasper, Tx.

Jasper Chevron

Jasper Trailers Tossed

National Guard in Jasper

Some Jasper homes

Snapped Trees

Cameron, La.

Cameron First Baptist Church gym

Cameron Library

Cameron Library 2 months later - debris removed

2 months later

Dolphin Rescue

Grand Chenier Homes

Stranded Pony in Delcambre

southerngale · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:49 pm

Sabine Pass, Tx. Aerial - NOAA

Orange, Tx. Aerial - NOAA

Cameron, La. Aerial - NOAA

cycloneye · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:55 pm

Kelly those are incredible and dramatic pictures that you haved posted.Those pics show how strong Rita was when she made landfall in that area.

Tampa Bay Hurricane · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:56 pm

Horrific

JtSmarts · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:56 pm

Wow this is the first time I've really seen Rita's damage, besides those storm surge pics from Cameron. :cry:

Matt-hurricanewatcher · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:57 pm

The top pics look a little like the damage from LILI...But as you got down they look like Katrina's.

Jim Cantore · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:02 pm

Thats amazing

it got overshadowed by Katrina and thats the only reason we arent always saying how horrific that is but that just shows that even if its overshadowed a hurricane can still cause massive damage

HURAKAN · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:15 pm

Amazing images, it looks as if a bomb was dropped in the area.

wxmann_91 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:24 pm

Amazing pics southerngale. Thanks for sharing them.

I've already posted them twice so this time I'll only post the link:

Areas like Holly Beach, Peveto Beach completely erased from the earth

Scorpion · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:47 pm

Wow, incredible. I had no idea it was that bad. The media hardly covered this.

george_r_1961 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:02 am

OMG it looks like a war zone :eek:

Brent · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:26 am

Hard to believe Beaumont was on the "weaker" side of Rita.

Rainband · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:40 am

WOW all I can say Is WOW. How anyone can say Texas got off lucky is beyond my comprehension :roll:

My thoughts and Prayers go out to you all.

CajunMama · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:30 am

Hopefully this will show those who didn't know how damaging rita was the damage she did. No matter the strength of a hurricane, there's always devastating damage.

Anonymous · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:57 am

Very damaging storm, but much worse for Louisiana than Texas. I still don't think the people in Texas, mainly Corpus to Galveston know how lucky they have been.

Dr. Jonah Rainwater · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:00 am

Never mess with a Category Three hurricane...

Keep in mind, this was a 10-12 foot storm surge. Horrific.

CajunMama · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:03 am

~Floydbuster wrote:

Very damaging storm, but much worse for Louisiana than Texas. I still don't think the people in Texas, mainly Corpus to Galveston know how lucky they have been.

We not talking about the areas that rita missed. We talking the damage that rita directly affected.

CharleySurvivor · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:01 am

Those are amazing pics!

It's hard to imagine (for some of you) what devastation a hurricane can do. Seeing and living one is awful; worst then those pics.

My heart goes out to all who have been affected as I know too well what it is like from Charley last year.

Thank you for sharing those photos!

Swimdude · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:57 pm

Drove through that area Thanksgiving Day. I had plenty to be thankful for, that's for sure.

f5 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:38 pm

as bad as those photos are imagine the damage if Rita would of made landfall between freeport/Galveston we would be talking about 100+ billion in damage

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