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...With reporting by Verna Gates/Birmingham, Rita Healy/Boulder and the Associated Press
Dozens of alligators duck and dodge airboats at the Sabine Wildlife Refuge, where the cleanup from Hurricane Rita is just beginning nearly a year after the storm hit the Texas-Louisiana border. Rita struck less than a month after Katrina, forcing New Orleans evacuees to flee further inland. Rita's storm surge demolished coastal Louisiana towns and turned this southwest Louisiana marsh into a toxic trash heap, leaving fields littered with everything from flip-flops and shampoo bottles to refrigerators and entire 18-wheelers. One of about 3,000 trash piles is 5 miles long and half a mile wide...
RUDY GIULIANI The N.Y.C. mayor kicked up his (not-so-high) heels in 1997 on Saturday Night Live, playing the mother of Cheri Oteri's character Rita Delvecchio...
...Percentage of the $420 million charged to government-issued credit cards by Homeland Security staff in the wake of Katrina and Rita that wasn't authorized in advance, according to a government audit...
...Proportion of the $420 million charged to government-issued credit cards by U.S. Homeland Security staff in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita that wasn't authorized in advance, according to a government audit $68,000 Charge for 8,000 dog booties-which went unused