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“It’s so still it’s eerie,” Ray Soliz said Thursday. The former Victoria resident who now lives in Brownsville rode out Hurricane Dolly Wednesday in his home with his family, wife Lucy Soliz, daughter Laura Soliz, 21, and son Stephen Soliz, 17.
“You can hear a lot of chainsaws. It was a beautiful day – overcast, no rain, very little wind,” he said about the weather conditions Thursday.
But from his observations Harlingen wasn’t as fortunate.
On his way to work at Harlingen Glass and Mirror about 22 miles from his home, Soliz said he encountered a lot more damage than in Brownsville.
“Traffic lights were out, trees were down. There was no phone service,” he said. “At one portable storage building business I saw, most of the buildings were turned over.”
At his home in Brownsville, Soliz said, the damage was minimal.
“I lost one fence. It’s laying in my neighbor’s yard. But other than that there are branches everywhere. We had electricity the whole time,” he said.
But Soliz was pleased about not getting hit by the full force of the hurricane.
“We came out of it good. We’re doing well,” he said.
Locally, monetary contributions for the victims of Hurricane Dolly can be made to the Crossroads Chapter of the American Red Cross at 2805 N. Navarro St., Suite 500.
Call 361-573-2671 for more information.