Maybe all those doom-and-gloomers were right- this is God's punishment on the city of New Orleans. He will track them down no matter where they go.
I'm thinking Jerry Falwell forwarded to God a copy of "Girls Gone Wild" and now He is wiping out all the popular spring break destinations. He took out the Florida beaches last year. Now he's hammered New Orleans and (again) Pensacola. By this theory, Rita ought to move through South Padre Island - appropriate since a "rita" in that area is shorthand for an alcoholic beverage.
Which reminds me, if a bartender mixed a hurricane with a margarita, wouldn't that be a "Hurricane Rita"?