Hurricane Rita may not have made landfall directly in the Houston area, but she still left a legacy that Houstonians will never forget.
Read full article: Construction on Fort Bend County roads is ‘definitely a worry’ if we need to evacuate for hurricaneFrancine expected to be Cat. 2 hurricane with landfall expected in Louisiana, watches issued for Texas coast
Roughly 100 people died while trying to evacuate the Houston metro area in gridlock conditions as the then Category 5 hurricane barreled toward the Texas Gulf Coast. “Rita was one of those types of hurricanes that came through Houston, way back when,” Babst said. “People didn’t have a plan back then and they just told people to evacuate. People died out on freeways.”
“The elevation of the river has risen, greatly in that area. And the bridge has started to deteriorate,” Babst said. “They’re actually taking bits of the bridge away from that area, overpass and then expanding it so that it meets code. That’s a three year project that they’re working. It’s a huge project. I mean, they’re taking pieces of road from basically a three-lane road down to a one-lane road.
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