Hurricane Rita:An Unwelcome Visitor to PPG Industries in Lake Charles,Louisiana

摘要

Hurricane Rita's devastating eye passed just east of the Louisiana/Texas border about 2:30 a.m.on Saturday,September 24,2005.At the time of landfall the storm was a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 120 mph and a storm surge of 20 feet.PPG's Lake Charles chemicals complex is approximately 35 miles to the northeast of where the storm's center came ashore.The complex received Rita's punishing winds and a measure of her storm surge.