AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- Rain showers and thunderstorms were increasing across central Texas Wednesday evening, as hurricane Dolly churned across extreme

Weather conditions on South Padre Island have significantly improved with Hurricane Dolly moving out of the area. However, wind conditions remain strong and scattered storms remain.
South Padre Island has significant flooding, damage to various structures and scattered debris. The Queen Isabella Memorial Bridge remains closed until opened by the Texas Department of Transportation. The Island remains without power, and residents and visitors are still urged to remain indoors.
s expected, and storm surge estimates remain 6-8 feet, according to the National Weather Service.

By Joe Mitchell BROWNSVILLE, Texas, July 23 (Reuters) - Hurricane Dolly moved inland after tearing into the South Texas coast on Wednesday with 95 mph (150 kph) winds, pouring torrential rain on the U.S.-Mexico border area and threatening floods.
Dolly, the second hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, dropped up to 12 inches (30 cm) of rain in the first few hours after coming ashore at the barrier island of South Padre Island, where it ripped off roofs, bent palm trees in half and left thousands of residents without power.
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PHOENIX -- The remnants of Hurricane Dolly could possibly lash the Valley this weekend with potentially prolonged rainfall, Weather Watch 5 meteorologists

AUSTIN, Texas, July 23, 2008 (ENS) - Hurricane Dolly tore into South Texas early Wednesday afternoon with driving rain and sustained winds near 100 miles per hour, ripping roofs off houses and hotels and dropping power lines.
The eye of Hurricane Dolly made landfall over southern Padre Island as a borderline category one to category two hurricane on the Saffir/Simpson scale. The storm blew the roofs off the Bahia Mar, a 10-story resort hotel, and the Palmetto Inn restaurant.
N. Pinkerton Jr. "Be safe, be smart and leave the roads to our emergency responders."

By Demian McLean July 23 (Bloomberg) - Hurricane Dolly was downgraded to a Category 1 storm as it made landfall today in southern Texas, where coastal residents weathered their first direct hit by a hurricane in almost a decade.
Sustained winds fell to 85 miles (140 kilometers) per hour, down from 100 mph when Dolly came ashore as a Category 2 storm at South Padre Island at 1 p.m. local time, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Dolly had moved to about 50 miles north of Brownsville as of 4 p.m. local time.
s were without power as of 3 p.m. local time, said electric utility AEP Texas.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - Smugglers tried to use Hurricane Dolly as a cover in at least three attempts to move drugs or illegal aliens through Texas, border officials said Wednesday.
Authorities estimate that the confiscated marijuana has a street value of $8 million.
advantage of the bad weather.

By Jim Forsyth Texas Governor Rick Perry this afternoon asked President Bush to declare fifteen south Texas counties as federal disaster areas, as Hurricane

BY VICKI DESORMIER | BROWNSVILLE, TX | July 23, 2008 Widespread flooding has been predicted in the wake of Hurricane Dolly which crossed the southern Texas

Hurricane Dolly blew into the Texas-Mexico border with her roof ripping winds exceeding 100 miles per hour, churning the Gulf of Mexico as she arrived.
"It's just a very angry sea, that's a lot of strong waves, extreme high tides," explained resident Charles Broomer.
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7/23/2008 - SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) - As Hurricane Dolly continues to pound the Texas-Mexico border with heavy rains and strong winds, Airmen remain on standby to help when needed.
The hurricane made landfall July 23 as a Category 2 storm, with 85-mile-an-hour winds. Weather forecasters expect the storm to deposit 15 inches of rain across the southern part of the state.
he Air Force News Agency at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Agency officials sent a four-person team to the storm area to report on the storm's aftermath.

By James C. Mckinley Jr. BROWNSVILLE, Texas: Hurricane Dolly moved onto the Gulf shores of south Texas and northern Mexico Wednesday afternoon,

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (CNN) - As his fishing boat, Murphy's Law, was tossed about Wednesday in the path of Hurricane Dolly, Steven Murphy hoped to dodge the adage his vessel is named for: "If anything can go wrong, it will."
Captain Murphy's Fishing Charters boats sit moored Wednesday at South Padre Island, Texas.
nd military personnel scurrying for safety and forcing people on South Padre Island to hunker down to wait it out. Video Watch Dolly pound South Padre »

© 2008 AP BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Hurricane Dolly has left nearly 53000 residents in three South Texas counties without power. Gov. Rick Perry has requested a

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Hurricane Dolly gathered strength and slammed into the South Texas coast Wednesday with punishing rain and winds of 100 mph, blowing down signs, damaging an apartment complex and knocking out power to thousands.
But local officials' greatest fear — that the levees holding back the Rio Grande would fail and cause massive flooding — eased when Dolly meandered 35 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border just before coming ashore on South Padre Island as a Category 2 storm. After hitting land, the storm weakened to Category 1.
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Brownsville Independent School District officer Raymond Hernandez helped evacuees to a shelter at a high school on Wednesday in Brownsville, Texas.