Well, Hello Dolly... It's so nice to Have you Back Where You Belong !!

Tides are swelling, Dolly
You're looking bellwetherly, Dolly
You're still growing, you're still -- going strong

Storm surge is pounding the sand... Dolly
blah blah blah -- Dolly.... oh forget it ...

July 22, 2008 Dolly: Goodbye Texas, Hello Mexico

I've exhausted the easy rhymes on Tropical Storm Dolly, which is finally nudging hurricane status at seventy-four mph but seems headed for northern Mexico instead of southern Texas. But the right quandrant of a storm is the hardiest and so the Rio Grande Valley will get the worst of whatever she has when coming ashore sometime tomorrow. In Cameron County they're getting up the plywood and preparing for flooding. Looks like Central Texas will get no rain at all, not even enough wind to worry about, unless one of the tornadoes these things often spawn should wander up our way. Which is doubtful. (Posted by Dick Stanley at 09:11 AM HERE

--MEANWHILE -- Fickle Storms Mean Business anywhere they go!! As [Dolly] storm clouds darken overhead, a man watches the waves break in Cancun. At a Home Depot in Brownsville near the border between Texas and Mexico, residents of both countries were busy buying plywood, generators, batteries and flashlights, a store manager said. Source: AP

Urdaz said they're clearing everything that's loose out of the yard at home. "We're just expecting lots of rain."
Jesus Gil was lifting large coolers into the back of his pickup truck and had bought flashlights and batteries, bracing for the storm at both work and home.
"I'm just trying to be prepared," said Gil, who was in Houston for the Hurricane Rita evacuation. He doesn't plan to leave this time, but bought extra gas just in case.
Tropical Storm Dolly Heads for Texas By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN,

AP
In Hidalgo County, the call went out for volunteers to man shelters that were scheduled to open Tuesday afternoon for residents of neighboring coastal counties.
Even as far up the coast as the Houston area, Harris County officials told residents to be ready in case the storm changes course and heads their way.
The National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane warning from Brownsville north to Port O'Connor. Meanwhile, a tropical storm warning was issued from north of Port O'Connor to the San Luis Pass, a strait south of Galveston.
McALLEN, Texas (July 22) - Texas mobilized National Guard troops and residents along the Gulf Coast near the Mexican border were buying plywood, flashlights and gasoline as Tropical Storm Dolly gained strength Tuesday over the Gulf on its way to becoming a hurricane before it hits land.
Hurricane warnings were in effect for parts of the Texas and Mexico coasts, meaning hurricane conditions were expected in those areas by the end of Tuesday.

Superstitious?? HERE is a great source for a full report on Evacuations of the Past:
RITA & KATRINA: 1st evers: 2 Cat.5, in one season, in Gulf, on same path;1.3M+ leave TX/LA author: various

The Present Situation can be read about--
Official Warnings from Weather at HERE:
TROPICAL STORM DOLLY ADVISORY NUMBER 7

NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL042008
1000 PM CDT MON JUL 21 2008

...HURRICANE WARNINGS ISSUED...

AT 10 PM CDT...0300 UTC...A HURRICANE WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM
BROWNSVILLE TO PORT O'CONNOR TEXAS. A HURRICANE WARNING MEANS THAT
HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN
THE NEXT 24 HOURS. PREPARATIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY
SHOULD BE RUSHED TO COMPLETION.

AT 10 PM CDT...A TROPICAL STORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM NORTH
OF PORT O'CONNOR TO SAN LUIS PASS. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS
THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA
WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

AT 10 PM CDT...THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO HAS ISSUED A HURRICANE
WARNING FROM RIO SAN FERNANDO NORTHWARD TO THE BORDER BETWEEN
MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES.

AT 10 PM CDT...THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO HAS ISSUED A TROPICAL STORM
WARNING AND A HURRICANE WATCH FROM LA PESCA TO SOUTH OF RIO SAN
FERNANDO. A HURRICANE WATCH MEANS THAT HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE
POSSIBLE WITHIN THE WATCH AREA...GENERALLY WITHIN 36 HOURS.

FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA...INCLUDING POSSIBLE
INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS...PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED
BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE.

AT 1000 PM CDT...0300Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM DOLLY WAS
LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 23.1 NORTH...LONGITUDE 92.8 WEST OR ABOUT 320
MILES...515 KM...EAST OF LA PESCA MEXICO AND ABOUT 435 MILES...695
KM...SOUTHEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS.

DOLLY IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 17 MPH...28 KM/HR. A TURN TO
THE WEST-NORTHWEST IS EXPECTED TOMORROW WITH A DECREASE IN FORWARD
SPEED...FOLLOWED BY A TURN TO THE NORTHWEST ON WEDNESDAY. ON THIS
TRACK...THE CENTER OF DOLLY SHOULD BE VERY NEAR THE WESTERN COAST