Chris Cantell Discusses US News: Dolly Emergency by Livia Cseresova

Tropical storm Dolly turned into a hurricane Tuesday afternoon with almost 75 mph and is heading towards the U.S.-Mexico border and the Rio Grande Valley, where officials worried that heavy rain may cause flooding and levee breaks.

A hurricane warning is in effect for the coast of Texas from Brownsville to Corpus Christi and in Mexico from Rio San Fernando northward. Tropical storm warnings were also issued for areas next to the hurricane zone.

The officials in Mexico are planning to evacuate 23,000 people to government shelters. And the Texas officials urged inhabitants of Rio Grande to move away from the levees because they don’t know how much water they can hold.

The storms together with the not-so-good levees pose a huge flooding threat. The Cameron County Emergency Management Coordinator Johnny Cavazos said "We believe that those (levees) will be breached if it continues on the same track. So please stay away from those levees."

Now, there are big lines at centers giving out sandbags in the Rio Grande Valley. And in inland Hidalgo County, officials call for volunteers to five shelters that it wanted to open for residents fleeing coastal counties.

People planning to ride out the storm shopped for supplies in Edinburgh, which is 12 miles from the Mexican border.

And troops were preparing at armoires in San Antonio, Houston and Austin after Gov. Rick Perry called up 1,200 Guard members to help.

The Port Isabel Detention Center’s almost 1,000 members were sent to other detention centers in Texas. Also, in the Gulf of Mexico, workers were evacuated from oil rigs.

Some other parts of Texas, which are stricken by drought followed Dolly with 4 inches forecast to fall by the time the storm’s eastern edge sweeps across the region, John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas climatologist said.

Approximately 20 counties in northern part of South Texas are behind yearly rainfall by 12 and 16 inches, he said.

He also said that "If you get that much (rain) in two days there'd be flooding. Weather never gives you ideal stuff. This is certainly not going to be an exception to that. The best to hope for from this is a temporary reprieve from the dry conditions."

by Livia Cseresova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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