Rita is a storm to be taken seriously,
What you have here with this storm is a lot of damage everywhere in the county,
We are taking this storm very seriously. We are urging Miami-Dade County residents to do the same as we learned from hurricane Katrina storms are unpredictable,
While most of us are breathing a sigh of relief I want to remind residents that hurricane season does not end until Nov. 30, ... We have been extremely fortunate this time around, but this is an active hurricane season and more named storms are likely.
We've got a large task in front of us, ... What the storm did was basically cut right through Dade County.