cieldumort
(Moderator)
Wed Jul 23 2008 03:27 PM
Hurricane Fit For Texas



Hurricane Dolly is now an upper-end Cat 1, having been interacting with land, and in fact just recently having made landfall along South Padre Island, where numerous weaker, and even some better-built structures, are reported to have sustained heavy damage. Jim Cantore and Julie Martin (TWC) reporting from phone-ins at the Radison in South Padre, report that their roof is peeling away and some windows are blowing out. As far as injuries go, they are also reporting that a young man who chose to stand out on the balcony of a 7th story somewhere around there was blown off, and has sustained serious injuries. It is looking like Dolly will leave more of a mess in many places in deep south Texas than any other tropical cyclone since perhaps Hurricane Beulah (September, 1967).



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