Good morning Mig...yep, by my estimates, that's about $284 per person, on the state's side. Today is the anniversary of hurricane Rita, ironically your post was sent at the precise moment that Rita made landfall. Hurricane Rita hit Louisiana 3 weeks after Katrina, it was a devestating hurricane and actually went down in history as being the stronger of the two storms, it didn't get the national attention that Katrina did due to government censorship, the majority of it was kept out of the press. I suspect this was because there weren't enough National Guardsman stateside to protect life & property and after the embarassing publicity of a the unchecked civil unrest after hurricane Katrina, the government didn't allow the media in at all, fearing another public "black-eye" months before the beginning of an election year. Rita is however in the history books listed as one of the largest, strongest and the fourth most expensive natural disaster in U.S. History.
Hurricane Rita was the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone ever observed in the Gulf of Mexico. Rita caused $11.3 billion in damage on the U.S. Gulf Coast in September 2005.[1] Rita was the seventeenth named storm, tenth hurricane, fifth major hurricane, and third Category 5 hurricane of the historic 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
