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Hurricane Rita  

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  • Hurricane Rita formed as a tropical depression on September 17, 2005, east of Grand Turk in the Turks and Caicos Islands. It moved west-northwest and became a tropical storm over the Bahamas the next day. [Source: Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief; Hurricane Rita (2005)]

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  • 2005

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Hurricane_Rita

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