PICTURES: As Harvey strikes, a look back at Hurricane Rita

Hurricane specialist Lixion Avila looks at a satellite image of Hurricane Rita at the National Hurricane Center, Wednsday, Sept. 21, 2005, in Miami.

Hundreds of people wait in line for up to three hours for gas at a Texaco on I-45 September 24, 2005 in northwest Houston, Texas. Hurricane Rita made landfall near the Texas/Louisiana border as a Category Three storm.

A fuel supplier employee fills up an evacuee’s empty car as others wait on Interstate 45 North September 23, 2005 just north of Houston, Texas. Thousands of residents fleeing Hurricane Rita ran out of gas on highways leaving Houston. They were stuck on the side of the road waiting for fuel as the hurricane approached.

Galveston resident John McKenna, 49, jogs along the seawall as the waves break against it early Friday, Sept. 23, 2005, as Hurricane Rita looms offshore.

A pedestrian walks along the seawall as the waves start breaking 23 September, 2005, as Hurricane Rita looms offshore.

Rosa Machado, left, walks in waist high flood water as her neighbors’ trailer burns in Lafite, La., after Hurricane Rita passed through the area, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005

A Chinook helicopter drops sandbags to repair the breach in the Industrial Canal levee, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005, in New Orleans. The storm surge created by Hurricane Rita eroded repairs made after Katrina and sent water surging back into the already devastated Ninth Ward.

Hurricane Katrina and Rita evacuees fill the floor of the Delco Activity Center, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005, in Austin.

Little remains of Holly Beach, La, a popular vacation and fishing spot, in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita, as seen in this aerial view, Sunday morning, Sept. 25, 2005.

The street in the Lower Ninth Ward is covered in heavy dried mud as the water begins to drain from the area, in this Sept. 26, 2005 file photo in New Orleans. Rita struck Sept. 24, 2005, a Category 3 storm whose 120-mph winds and 9-foot storm surge ruined every structure in the southwestern Louisiana towns of Johnson Bayou and Holly Beach, bringing similar destruction to southeastern Texas.

An oil rig platform construction facility is surrounded by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005 near New Iberia, La.

High water from Hurricane Rita sits in Lake Charles, Louisiana, after the storm pushed ashore Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005.

A sign reading “Thanks for Visiting” lies in a flooded yard of a home damaged by Hurricane Rita, Monday, Sept. 26, 2005, in Pecan Island, La.

A deer wades through marshland flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita, Monday, Sept. 26, 2005, at the Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge near Cameron, La.

This aerial photo taken from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter shows a damaged and flooded church in Campron, La., Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita.

This aerial photo taken from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter shows damage and flooding in Sweet Lake, La., Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita.