At risk of displaying just how borderline computer literate I really am, could someone explain in easy to follow language how to follow all these related but timeliness-differentiated threads and find the latest stuff without spending half an hour in the search engine?
You can type in "Isabel" in the search engine and click the option to "sort by title", then go toward the end of the thread (the article and its responses) to find the most recent information;
or,
look over a recent Isabel thread and see if anyone is pinging (sending alerts to others' "My Comments" page) other FReepers (Free Republic users), and ask them on the thread if they will ping (alert) you.
Your My Comments page is available by clicking the link called "My Comments" when you log onto Free Republic's Latest Posts page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/browse?ao=0 You can also Post Reply to a thread that is keeping track of things and that way the specific thread of interest will show up on YOUR My Comments page.
If that isn't clear, holler, k?