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Old Jul 23, 2008 | 11:32 PM
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Default Hurricane Dolly sucks (Pics and Video ADDED)
Dude this freakin thing isn't even that bad but it was strong enough that it blew away my sons trampoline with that mesh cage and also blew done a portion of our wood fence down. Pretty crazy. Oh and my neighbors chingles got blown of there roofs.







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On the contrary, Hurricane Dolly blows.

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Ill post pics when RoadRunner starts to work again...
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LOL. Thats sucks man. You had no roof damage at all?
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I have had about two inches of rain and like 30mph wind gusts...knead moar rayn.
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Nope no roof damage just like the fence fell and the street got completely flooded. Pretty crazy but oh well. LOL
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Must be nice to even get rain this time of year. What does that stuff look like again?
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A total of 3 3/4 inches of badly needed rain...hopefully this takes us through August.
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Yeah she blows, my aunt has to condos on the bay side of South Padre and they took in alot of water, some windows blew out, and there dock was messed up. Shes been without electricity all week. Mold is already getting really bad. Sucks we were just down there 2 weeks ago for a reunion and the weather was beautiful. They got it pretty bad.
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Dude It Blew Got Somewhere Around 20" Of Rain And Prob. 100 Mph Winds Just Glad That Things Werent Totaly Destroyed. Sure Could Have Been A Lot Worse.
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True... I'd post pics but my Treo only hooks up to my Laptop and my dad took it to Dallas.
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a couple of my buds were in south padre when it was not too bad the power was out and every one was gettin out of town.. they just stayed in a hotel and opened all the windows lol
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Here ya'll go here are the pics
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you didnt leave the tram. right side up did you ?
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Yeah LOL... I was lazy and didnt want to take the top cage off and flip it over. That freakin thing is heavy thats why I didnt think anything bout it.
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my kids have the same one, if we get one comin i dont know what ill do with it. turn it over and chain it to a tree i guess????
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