Hurricane Isabel - Page 2

mickydaniels · 09-19-2003, 09:42 AM

The edge of the hurricane knocked off some tree branches here pretty good. The wind kept me up all night too.

Kitana85 · 09-19-2003, 10:29 AM

They cancelled classes!!! All of York, Lancaster and the surrounding counties are totally shut down! Power was out for 6 hours!

JustSumGamerGuy · 09-19-2003, 11:05 AM

Yay i luv that hurricane what a good excuse not to go to skool !

Hope we get another one soon

Stonecutter · 09-19-2003, 04:29 PM

Did anyone see the footage of Bryan Williams and that Weather Channel guy last night. MSNBC, CNBC, Conan O'Brian and a bunch of other people kept showing it over and over. It was hi-****ing-larious Williams looks like spiderman clinging to the wall and the weather channel guy literally got blown down the street.

ZebraRampage · 09-19-2003, 04:45 PM

I'm so pissed...my power went out again at 3:37AM, and it didn't come back on till 4:00 PM. Today was annoying, and hot, and boring.

Happydude · 09-19-2003, 05:36 PM

power didnt go out here...yet...hopefully it wont go out later either.

Rndm_Perfection · 09-19-2003, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Stonecutter

Did anyone see the footage of Bryan Williams and that Weather Channel guy last night. MSNBC, CNBC, Conan O'Brian and a bunch of other people kept showing it over and over. It was hi-****ing-larious Williams looks like spiderman clinging to the wall and the weather channel guy literally got blown down the street.

I saw the lady holding onto a street light and a big planter pot... that was enough humor for me.

Jason1 · 09-19-2003, 11:58 PM

Everyone's calling it a hurricane, but I believe it was downgraded to a tropical storm before it ever got to the east coast...I could be wrong on that though...my point is there's been a lot worse that have came before...Isable is nothing compared to some

Joeiss · 09-20-2003, 12:13 AM

It got downgraded to a tropical storm, and then I believe it got downgraded again to whatever is just a bit less than a tropical storm.

MasterMind · 09-20-2003, 12:41 AM

I was watching some show where they said that the news media is making this seem a lot worse then it really is.

Most of the clips of people being in strong winds are only because the people are standing in areas that create a wind tunnel. For instance I saw a clip on Leno where a news reporter was being blown around, but when he moved about 15 feet to the side, he was able to stand straight and it didn't even look that windy. The reason was he was out of the wind tunnel created by buildings and what not. Guess the news just needs some good footage to get viewers.

Kitana85 · 09-20-2003, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Joeiss

It got downgraded to a tropical storm, and then I believe it got downgraded again to whatever is just a bit less than a tropical storm.

Hmm, not sure about that. When it got to Pennsylvania, it was considered a level 2 hurricane... and judging from all the fallen trees and a few smashed cars, I guess it makes sense.

DeathsHand · 09-21-2003, 09:43 PM

Our power just came on... It went out around 5PM on Thursday... There was a wire in a tree going SPARK SPARK BURN BURN SMOKE SMOKE then eventually it went BOOM! And there went the power... 76 hours, no electricity... >_<

"I was watching some show where they said that the news media is making this seem a lot worse then it really is."

Well, mastermind, I wasn't able to watch any of the news coverage, but I heard some stuff on the radio... Tons of people without power, some without clean water, worst flooding in DC in at least 30 years...

And I don't think it was downgraded to a tropical storm until after it hit land...

Of course it's not the worst hurricane to hit the US, but it's the worst storm to hit DC in some time...

Jason1 · 09-21-2003, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by DeathsHand

Our power just came on... It went out around 5PM on Thursday... There was a wire in a tree going SPARK SPARK BURN BURN SMOKE SMOKE then eventually it went BOOM! And there went the power... 76 hours, no electricity... >_<

"I was watching some show where they said that the news media is making this seem a lot worse then it really is."

Well, mastermind, I wasn't able to watch any of the news coverage, but I heard some stuff on the radio... Tons of people without power, some without clean water, worst flooding in DC in at least 30 years...

And I don't think it was downgraded to a tropical storm until after it hit land...

Of course it's not the worst hurricane to hit the US, but it's the worst storm to hit DC in some time...

76 Hours!!??? Ouch. Ours was out for 48 a few winters ago, and I thought that was bad...Thank god we have a Natural Gas fireplace....