Hidalgo county managers were talking today about the levee's breaking. So, I guess it's more about flooding, but you've got some good gusts coming.
He's saying Cat 2
I guess your ‘gusts’ are there!
Dolly is intensifying at landfall. Claudette in 2003 and Katrina (Florida version) both were doing the same, and both hit harder as Cat 1 storms than people expected from their stated intensity. I hope people don’t take Dolly for granted, thinking that it is just a Cat 1.
“I think they’re thinking something like a Beulah scenario where Dolly intensifies then moves in slow and stalls up against the Sierra Madres, and dumps into the Rio Grande.”
Not to hijack the thread, but in your scenario, Mother Nature will have done more in one storm to temporarily shut down the border than the Government has done.