been on few weeks holiday, in Mexico, caught Hurricane Dolly on the first week, ****, that was an experience
anything been happening ?
cheeRS
was on holiday in cancun when it touched down, will try and put some pics up later
Hurricane Dolly was a tropical cyclone that made landfall in extreme southern Texas. Dolly was the fourth tropical cyclone and second hurricane to form during the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. Dolly developed on July 20 from an area of disturbed weather in association with a strong tropical wave. It was named Dolly at the same time it formed—skipping the tropical depression phase entirely as the precursor wave already had tropical storm-force winds. This marked the earliest time a fourth named cyclone has formed since the 2005 season, which holds the record.[1]
The tropical storm made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula near Cancún early on July 21, leaving at least 17 people dead in Guatemala,[2][3] and one person in the Yucatán. It moved into the Gulf of Mexico and strengthened to become a Category 2 hurricane, tracking westward and making landfall as a weak Category 2 on July 23 in South Padre Island, Texas, with 100 mph winds. This made Dolly the most intense system to make landfall in the United States since Hurricane Wilma in 2005. The storm caused 122,800 customers to lose power in Texas, and another 125,000 to lose it in Tamaulipas, and dropped estimated amounts of over 16 inches (410 mm) of rain in isolated areas .[4] Rip currents throughout the entire Gulf Coast resulted in one person drowning off the Florida Panhandle. The storm caused no deaths in Texas, but caused an estimated $1.2 billion dollars in damage: the remnants of the storm caused two deaths in New Mexico.
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