After making landfall on South Padre Island Hurricane Dolly Wednesday afternoon has strafed the Mexico-Texas coast in the Gulf of Mexico with 160 kilometre-per-hour winds, DPA reported. Televised reports of the storm showed considerable damage to property due to high winds and heavy rain ripping across the coast. Thousands of people have fled their homes both in Mexico and the US in search of shelter as the second hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season has been to thrashing coastal communities with heavy rain and high winds. The hurricane began moving inland over southern Texas and a hurricane warning remained in effect for the coast of Texas from Brownsville to just south of Baffin Bay and for the northeastern coast of Mexico from Rio San Fernando northward to the border between Mexico and the United States. The hurricane warning from Baffin Bay northward to neighboring Corpus Christi has been replaced by a tropical storm warning. A tropical storm warning remains in effect from Baffin Bay to Port O'Connor. The eye of the hurricane was located about 80 kilometres north of Brownsville Wednesday afternoon and moving northwest at about 13 kiloimetres per hour, according to the US National Hurricane Center. The storm is expected to make a gradual turn to the west-northwest in on Thursday pushing the hurricane further inland over southern Texas.
