After Hurricane Katrina, I posted a story about the effects of the hurricane. Well, Hurricane Rita tore through here last week and there is more to tell of hurricane effects. First, check out this wind map that I put together showing both storms' impact on the Gulf region:

I'm pretty proud of that map. It feels like it's a NOAA professionally made map. Fine, not really. But it shows all of the hurricane action that we got in the South Delta this past month.

As you can see, we didn't get hurricane or even tropical storm strength sustained winds from either storm. That doesn't mean that we didn't get a good share of rain, though. What we found with Rita was that they don't joke when they say, "Tornadoes can spawn from the hurricane." Tornado warnings kept going off on the news and the siren in town kept blaring. Although funnel clouds formed over Greenville, I didn't know that one actually touched down. But, my friend Steve saw this place get messed up as he was driving by:

Steve saw some beam fly into the front of it. The tornado touched down about five miles from here on the way to my school. Here is the back side of the place, with what appears to be a radio tower or something:

Finally, here is a picture not far from where the tornado touch down of power lines just chilling in the street. This happened in the middle of the night, presumably not long after we drove home right next to these power lines, last Saturday. It took crews three days to fix them.