Hurricane Isabel:Live Thread #2 "Force Ten Conditions In North Carolina And Further North"

NHC | 9-17-03 | My Favorite Headache

[Joe Hadenuf]

LOL......

[Howlin]

Thanks, OS.........for the prayers and the advice.

[Mo1]

Yeah that's in Kill Devil hills but i missed that confirmation. Did they say the whole hotel washed away now?

Shep said something about a Ranch something hotel washed into the ocean .. damage to many other hotels damaged

[Conservababe]

Mo

I didn't say the crew was in the motel at the time.

LOL

But, I would love to see film of a whole hotel collapsing and "at sea" as Shep said.

[jacquej]

Is Shep Smith really gay? Who woulda thunk it...

[Woodstock]

Thanks Slip me too. Too early to listen to the chitlins trying to figure out the Playstation and toilet without electricity. Bathtubs filling for future flushing .... stand by

[Lazamataz]

And they broke to Rivera for a second, and it appeared he was doing the chicken on a some beach, no audio though, he was trying to say something, but couldn't.

That's DEFINITELY gay code for something.

[glock rocks]

Did they say the whole hotel washed away now?

no, just some roof damage on the video.

[PrivateIdaho]

Funny, Jim is still standing by... sounds like he really wants to give his report but they won't go to him. Keeps repeating "We got some good stuff here, really got some good stuff".

[Mo1]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ... Sorry ;0)

[Slip18]

I'm waiting for a wave to hit Geraldo. They're getting bigger behind him.

[Lazamataz]

Is Shep Smith really gay?

Really. NTTAWWT.....

[Joe Hadenuf]

Rivera on FOX now hoping for severe flooding....His camera man keeps shaking the camera for effects....

[Woodstock]

P-a-le-e-e-a-s-e he cannot be gay! I'm leaving hubby in ten years for him when he's ols enough! ; )

[Lazamataz]

"We got some good stuff here, really got some good stuff".

Gay as hell.

[Petronski]

931,000 Dominion electric customers now without power. ---Richmond TV-8 (ABC [spit])

[Woodstock]

Can you tell that I cannot type? Thjey tell me it's from lack of sex.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Is Shep Smith really gay?

Naw, he's just gay. Now, Elton John is really gay.

[bd476]

"My dog is flipping out here....some good size limbs are blowing off the trees and hitting my deck and he's in full attack mode LOL

Crap, a good size one just landed on my van."

MKM, just read this. Hope you are safe and sound. God Bless and protect you, your family, your loved ones, your pets and your community.

[southernnorthcarolina]

A report from the scene (Part 2)...

Update from Swan Quarter...

I talked with inlaws again. They may have experienced a bit of the eye, as the wind abated for a while. Judging from the track of the storm, they almost surely experienced pretty close to the maximum winds of the storm, near the northeastern or eastern eyewall. So (just a guess) they may have received 80-90 mph winds. Winds there have now shifted from easterly to southerly, and should be out of the southwest soon. They have diminished considerably -- maybe 40-50 mph as of a few minutes ago.

Good news and bad news. The good news is that structural damage in the area, per their observation, and by phone calls to friends and neighbors, is rather minimal -- some damage to mobile homes, some missing shingles and the like on other houses, and of course some downed trees (not a lot, though). And there was never any concern about personal injury. Power still out, and most likely will remain out for some time; phones are fine.

But the bad news -- the tidal flooding that they feared, and then began to feel confident that they had escaped, has come about, suddenly and in a pretty big way. Their yard has a foot of water in it, as well as somebody'd rowboat bobbing around. Their house is built high enough so that it won't flood, but others won't be as fortunate. There's a nice 50-year-old house near them whose first floor had never flooded until Floyd -- but now it has again. The larger concern is for the huge commercial farming operations in Hyde County. The water is a combination of rain, canal water, and brackish bay water. Exactly how salty it is will determine the extent of long-term agricultural damage. It should recede fast, and they're still hopeful that the long-term damage won't be too great; certainly almost anyone with crops in the ground now will lose them, as the "high ground" in the vicinity is about 5 feet above sea level.