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LAKE CHARLES, La., Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Officials along Louisiana's western Gulf Coast took stock Monday as floodwaters retreated and residents surveyed damaged homes.
A number of towns experienced on a smaller scale what New Orleans did in Hurricane Katrina with storm surge pushing into canals and then into low-lying areas. Iberia Parish Sheriff Sid Herbert told the New Orleans Times Picayune about 3,000 houses were flooded, with one-third of the parish underwater at the height of the flooding.
"I've never seen a third of this parish flooded under any conditions," Hebert said.
The parishes of Cameron near the Texas border, Calcasieu to the north, and Lafayette and Vermilion to the east were the hardest hit. Lt. Gen. Russel Honore planned to set up a tent city in Lake Charles for residents whose homes are uninhabitable.
Honore, in charge of military relief efforts in Louisiana, said Rita could have been worse.
"Rita was a girl -- compared to a big lady -- a mean lady named Katrina," he told CNN.
No deaths from Rita had been reported in Louisiana as of Monday afternoon, largely because so many residents evacuated.
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