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we only experienced light thunder showers. they were calling for 6" of rain today. is fucking funny how the only people that get paid for being wrong 90% of the time are weather people
i hope ur not complaining
Buzz is cancelled because of a power outage due to this Izebhel-Jezebel bizotch.
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| Originally posted by Busy Child i hope ur not complaining |
Millions Powerless After Deadly Hurricane
U.S. National - AP
By JULIE HALENAR, Associated Press Writer
BALTIMORE - Isabel raced from Virginia to the Canadian border Friday, delivering far less rain than expected but leaving millions without power, smashing homes and causing tidal surges that trapped even some city dwellers in their homes.
At least 17 deaths and potentially billions of dollars in damage were blamed on Isabel, which proved troublesome despite taking just a day to fizzle from a 100 mph hurricane into a 30 mph tropical depression.
"You get to a point where it's out of your control," said Trish Kaidanow, who sloshed out of her Broadway Deli onto Baltimore streets flooded with up to 7 feet of water from the storm-swollen Chesapeake Bay.
Almost 200 people, and even a dog or two, had to be rescued by boats, school buses and dump trucks when flood waters spilled over the seawall onto the storefronts of the city's Inner Harbor and up to the windowsills of rowhouses and even some suburban homes.
An elderly couple in Bowleys Quarters was rescued from the attic of their house after the home filled with water, county officials said.
She doesn't know how she did it, but 29-year-old Evelyn Augosto walked three flooded blocks with her three young children after neighbors urged her to get out. She put one child on her shoulders and a neighbor carried another while her 10-year-old son walked in water up to his chest. None of them can swim.
"I was scared, but I had to get myself together to not get my kids scared," she said, adding that her children kept saying, "Mommy, mommy, we're going to drown."
Mayor Martin O'Malley, whose city also is dealing with 63,000 people without power, said: "We never thought we'd have enough sandbags to hold back the Chesapeake Bay, and that's what we're dealing with now."
President Bush has declared federal disasters in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. Delaware officials say they probably would make a disaster request next week.
In all, about 6 million customers from North Carolina to New York lost power from Isabel � 1.6 million of them in southeastern and central Virginia, where uprooted trees and downed power lines closed hundreds of highways and secondary roads. Debris was scattered everywhere. Long lines spilled around gasoline stations that managed to stay open.
About 16,000 Virginians were in shelters; 8,000 in North Carolina.
Virginia also had nine deaths � more than any other state. Six motorists died there, as did two people hit by trees and a man who died when his canoe capsized.
"We've just gone through the worst storm in the commonwealth probably in at least a generation," said Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner, who advised that it could be several days before power is restored because of the extensive damage to utility lines.
Water service was lost or diminished in many areas because pumping stations lost power; residents were advised to boil water before drinking it.
By midday Friday, Isabel had moved into Canada with a 30 mph whimper, a far cry from the 160 mph behemoth that had loomed in the Atlantic just a week before.
Along North Carolina's Outer Banks, where Isabel first made land Thursday, Friday's brilliant sunshine brought the first real glimpse of the destruction. In the town of Kitty Hawk alone, at least three fishing piers crumbled into the surf and about 25 oceanfront homes were destroyed or ripped from their foundations.
On the only highway through the 120-mile barrier islands, long stretches were simply erased, or left pocked with asphalt craters. Near the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Isabel's storm surge tore a new inlet that stranded 300 residents and floated at least one house into the Pamlico Sound. Authorities were still working to account for all of the 4,000 coastal residents who refused to evacuate.
Much of the destruction on the Outer Banks came late Thursday night, hours after the strongest winds hit, when the tidal cycle combined to produce raging waves.
"We kept hearing this real whirring noise," said Sandra Simmons of Avon. "I think it was a tornado that had done it. Our house is on stilts and it was swaying. We had waves in the toilet.'
Farther inland, residents worked in the sunshine to repair damage from waist-deep floodwaters that rushed in and quickly receded.
"It kind of looks like they misplaced the bomb for Saddam and dropped it here," said 72-year Brooks Stalnaker, whose home was one of 30 destroyed in the inland community of Harlowe, N.C. "We just got totaled."
Flood waters rushed through the Midtown Tunnel connecting Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., on Thursday just as workers were trying to close a flood gate. They were knocked off their feet by the strong, swift current, and were able to get up and escape only after linking themselves together, the workers said Friday. One of them ended up having to swim out.
No one was hurt, but the flooding caused unknown damage to the two-lane tunnel, and it will be at least two weeks before it reopens.
Because Isabel sped out of the country at more than a 20 mph clip, it spared many areas the worst. West Virginia got up to 5 1/2 inches of rain � but far less than the original forecast of a foot. Pennsylvania got only 1 to 3 inches � not the 6 to 9 inches once feared.
But Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown warned that Isabel's flooding threat may be a delayed reaction.
"Because Isabel moved through so quickly, we're going to see some blue skies and people will think it's all over with. But indeed we still have a very good chance of some flash flooding. We will still have some rivers that continue to creep up on their banks and overspill," Brown said.
Even the blue skies that accompanied Friday's cleanup brought little relief to Bob Dorrman, who stripped the torn vinyl off his home and tried to restart two flooded cars in Harlowe.
"Look at it, it's like God apologizing," he said, squinting in the sunshine. "Well, too late, dude."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...on_re_us/isabel
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| Originally posted by Trancer-X [b"Look at it, it's like God apologizing," he said, squinting in the sunshine. "Well, too late, dude." |
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| Originally posted by LuNaSeA LOL WTF?!??! dude, if i was the reporter listening to that guy say that, i think i woulda smacked him straight across the head and then laughed my ass off! |
17 deaths? What the fuck?
I had forgotten about Annapolis!
Pratt Street in Downtown Baltimore
More Fells Pt.
Broadway 
Wow, guess I got lucky. No flooding, just some downed trees and I got my power back couple hours ago....
Wow those are amazing pics trancerx...
I never thought id see b-more flooded like that.. especialyl Pratt St. isnt that one of the streets the leads down to Camden Yards? Maybe im thinking of Eutaw St...
I havnt been to Baltimore in such a long time, but those pics bring back memories tho.
BTW did anyone see that coverage of the storm with NBC's Brian Williams? He was talking to some meteorologist and then they both lost their footing and were swept out in the street. LOL funny stuff..
even Conan made fun of them
CANOE!
A waverunner could be fun.
I tree fell and cut my friends van in half, and while I was driving with another friend, a tree fell right in front of us and the powerlines got fucked and sparks were flying everywhere. It was a fun time
Man i'm finally back online.. we lost our cable first and it was the last thing to come back...
HEHEHE!!! we had 
a couple hurrican parties!! What a party!! we didn't loose electricity until late at night.. my boy and I rolled out in the worst of it to go to ft. belvoir to get some more liquor! That was funny.. and I love the new tires I have on my car, but I wish i could have taken the van instead!! But NO, someone had to smash my van into a parked car!! - so i rolled in the car, plus i had to go with a vehicle that had the military decals on it!! That was amazing to see.. but a lot of rain..
Then because of loosing electricity I had to grill ALLL MY FOOD.. both refrigerators.. and I would have posted and told everyone here COME TO MY HOUSE AND EAT>>> ALOT> then after cooking.. the electricity came back on.. good grief... i was inviting random strangers over! which reminds me.. as I still have left overs.. anyone hungry??
storm didn't do much but it left me w/o power for 3 days grr no comp=hell
it was 75 and sunny yesterday and me and my friend mike (bigblackbrotha) went out on a fishing boat for 9 hours and i got sunburn!!! not bad but it still hurts. its about 70 today.............Bye, Bye Isabel hope everybody that suffered from this storm recovers soon!!!
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| Originally posted by Trancer-X I had forgotten about Annapolis! |
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| Originally posted by daffodil hope y'all are ok and isabel didn't cause too much trouble. |
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| Originally posted by daffodil hope y'all are ok and isabel didn't cause too much trouble. |
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| Originally posted by daffodil oh, the red wine was the best idea ever. we sat and listened to the hurricane while getting smashed. hurricane parties were the best, wednesday night into thursday morning was absolute insanity! |
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| Originally posted by Mebot you shouldve been drinking some Hurricanes while listening to the Hurricane! get it? coz ur drinking a hurricane and a hurricane is going on? ahahahaa!! heh.... ahem.. ah i have no sense of humor... *goes back from whence I came* |
My neighborhood got hit pretty hard. Most houses around dont have power still, mine was fine except for 1 broken window on the terrace. But I f*cking hate this shit because I couldn't come to work for 2 days (our building is near the waterfront and was closed Thursday and Friday) and now we are forced to either make up the time or they will take 2 days out of my vacation time..... I'm trying VERY hard not to yell at my boss coz this is pure bullshit.. Oh and he "worked from home"!!!!!!!!! BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!! F*cking assholes, ruined my good mood this morning 
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