Good-By Dolly, Good Riddance!

Yesterday looked like this, but this morning we awoke to lake front property. The RV section came thru the storm quite well, but many mobiles had their skirting blown off in sections.

Gene's "forest" took quite a hit. You can see the many colors of his hacienda now.

This is typical of the damage in places on the north fence. Usually just the top tier is loose.

This view is from our carport, #38. Looks pretty if you don't notice the floating rafts of fire ants.

Most of the fruit trees lost quite a bit of fruit. Several of the recently planted trees are leaning or down, but maybe they'll recover with some stakes.



Mailman is gonna need scuba gear.



This is the view from Russ & Betty's house, looking past the 600 row to the field, Lake Sandpiper, courtesy of Hurricane Dolly.

Although most residents had little damage ... maybe a few missing shingles or a strip of siding down, but Bob & Johnie's carport roof fell on their car.

By far the most damage occurred to Harry & Linda's house. Their roof peeled off during the height of the storm and the interior of their house is soaked. Major, major damage.

This is just outside the front gate. This whole section of fence is down, the rest leaning badly.

All in all, we were pretty lucky. The eye passed just to the north over Raymondville. We got a lot of rain, maybe a foot. Don't know 'cause our rain gauge overflowed. Never lost electricity, tho it flickered a lot. Phones were down part of the time, satellite TV didn't work, internet just came back mid afternoon. It'll be awhile before the water soaks in and mosquitoes may be a nuisance....but really, we were lucky!