{"id":3033,"date":"2008-07-23T08:46:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T15:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2008-07-23T08:46:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T15:46:36","slug":"hurricane-dolly-now-a-category-2-hurricane-100-mph-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/hurricane-dolly-now-a-category-2-hurricane-100-mph-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Dolly Now a Category 2 Hurricane &#8211; 100 MPH Winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Dolly, with sustained winds of 100 miles per hour, has been given Category 2 status and is expected to make landfall later today, the National Hurricane Center says.<\/p>\n<p>Dolly slowed as its 15-mile-wide eye neared the Texas coast early this morning. The storm&#8217;s outer bands brought rain and the threat of flooding to cities and towns straddling the Texas-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>The eye of the storm is expected to make landfall around midday today, near the border, the Hurricane Center says.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 15 inches of rain are expected for some areas and flooding along the coast and the Rio Grande River has become a major concern, and forecasters say there could be more rain if Dolly continues to slow down.<\/p>\n<p>Over a thousand National Guard troops have been called in case the levees along the river are toppled in the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/Weather\/story?id=5432296&amp;page=1\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Hurricane Center &#8211; Updates and Tracking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Dolly, with sustained winds of 100 miles per hour, has been given Category 2 status and is expected to make landfall later today, the National Hurricane Center says. Dolly slowed as its 15-mile-wide eye neared the Texas coast early this morning. The storm&#8217;s outer bands brought rain and the threat of flooding to cities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}