Rain returns to hard-hit New Orleans as Hurricane Rita targets Gulf Coast
Friday, September 23, 2005
NEW ORLEANS -- In a grim opening salvo from Hurricane Rita, a steady rain began falling Thursday on New Orleans for the first time since Katrina laid waste to the city, and engineers rushed to shore up the broken levees for fear of another ruinous round of flooding.
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