I B here.
I'm in Union County, near Charlotte, so of course Isabel wasn't a factor here. But I have family and friends in Swan Quarter, which was affected. Swan Quarter is the seat of Hyde County, on the mainland (Ocracoke, which is linked to Swan Quarter by ferry is also in Hyde). They received the worst of the winds, or something close to the worst; the center of the eye passed just to their west, and I think they were actually in the eye briefly. Certainly they were hit by the wind in the northeastern quadrant of the eyewall, which is the most severe part.
No injuries down there that I'm aware of, but then communications are still pretty much out. Wind damage was generally not so bad, because the county is either open farming country (soybeans, corn, vegetables, winter wheat) or forestland (pines mostly, either as State/National forests, or commercial tree farms), but with few exceptions, folks don't have trees near their houses -- they know better than to do that from past experience.
The bad news was that there was some tidal flooding. Some folks had a couple of feet of water in their yards, and a couple of inches in their homes, briefly. The biggest concern, though, is over possible salt contamination of the farmland. Part of the flood was brackish water from the bay, part was fresh water from the Pamlico River, and part was rain. The early guess seems to be that it won't be too bad for next year's crops, but they'll find that out later. This year's crops were pretty much already a bust due to the wet growing season, but most of what was in the ground was lost, I imagine.
Not nearly as bad as Floyd, agriculterally speaking. But not a lot of fun, either.