Hurricane Rita--Still Below the Radar, Eight Months Later

In the interest of maintaining a degree of sarcasm, I'll quickly note Blogger's back to its usual level of "efficiency" when it comes to posting pictures...though, to be fair, I was merely trying to add a shot of the storm track (which you can find here).

Suspect Device links to a short series of reports from the Lafayette Advertiser:

While communities prepare for the 2006 hurricane season that began Thursday, the scars of 2005's forgotten hurricane are fresh in some Vermilion and Cameron Parish towns.

Hurricane Rita slammed ashore at the Louisiana-Texas border on Sept. 24, less than a month after Hurricane Katrina swamped southeast Louisiana and Mississippi. Residents here say they are forgotten by the national news media, Congress and the nation, hidden in the shadow of Katrina and the devastation she wreaked in the New Orleans area.

Eight months after Hurricane Rita sent high winds and storm surge ashore here, pushing houses off their foundations, exploding businesses and unearthing tombs, her presence still is very visible even as the wounds begin to heal.