Gulf Coast of Texas Braces for Onslaught from Rita (audio)

Although it weakened throughout Friday, Hurricane Rita bore down on the Texas/Louisiana border, threatening the oil refining towns of Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas, and Lake Charles, La., with a possible 20-foot storm surge, pounding waves and some 25 inches of rain. Washington Post reporter Doug Struck, who spent much of Friday around the city of Beaumont, outlines the situation from eastern Texas.

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"Gulf Coast of Texas Braces for Onslaught from Rita (audio)." Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, Object #1978 (March 07 2006, 2:36 pm)<http://www.hurricanearchive.org/object/1978>