Hurricane Dolly (2008) the Gulf. The Minerals Management Service indicated that Dolly caused 4.66% of the total oil production and 5.13% of the natural gas production to be shut in. In the United States, President George W. Bush declared 15 counties of Texas as a federal disaster area. Hurricane Dolly is considered to be the most destructive hurricane to hit the Rio Grande Valley in 41 years; the last such storm was Beulah in 1967, but Beulah was not more damaging; it was just deadlier. It was the worst hurricane to hit Brownsville since 1980's Allen. No deaths were reported as a result
Bertha Zück a lady's maid, Bertha Zück was later appointed to the post of the Queen's treasurer, an unusual post for a woman in the 19th century. Bertha Zück Bertha ("Anna Barbara") Zück, also called "Babette" (2 February 1797 – 20 February 1868 at Stockholm Palace), was the German favourite, Lady's maid and treasurer of Queen Josephine of Sweden. Bertha Zück arrived to Sweden from Bavaria in the entourage of Josephine of Leuchtenberg at her wedding with the Crown Prince of Sweden in 1823. Josephine became Queen in 1844. Zück was, alongside Josephine’s Catholic confessor, Lorentz Studach (d. 1873), Josephine's most intimate