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Hurricane Rita caused extensive erosion of marshes in western Lousiana

By St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
photograph of undeveloped Hackberry Beach shows widespread flooding
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Hurricane Rita caused extensive erosion of marshes in western Lousiana. A photograph of undeveloped Hackberry Beach shows widespread flooding of the marshes four days after the storm's September 24, 2005 landfall.

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