Well we survived Hurricane Isabel


We experienced our first Hurricane, or edge of a Hurricane I guess.

Thursday 9/18/2003. Hurricane Isabel comes ashore near Hatteras Island and headed inland into North Carolina. Not knowing what to expect and all we locked ourselves in the house and peeked out the windows to watch what would happen.

As far as I can tell from the news, the maximum sustained wind was 45 - 50 MPH and the highest recorded gust in the Raleigh/Cary/Durham/Chapel Hill area was 75MPH. So all in all we got the edge of it and about 1.5" of rain.

I videotaped a bit of the trees waving madly in the air, but that was about all the excitement we got. There is a piece of siding in the back yard from somewhere and a lot of little branches scattered around the yard. I think we're going to just mow up the yard and see what happens to the lawn mower. I can always get a new one if I roast this one doing it. But it'd be easier than picking up all the little branches.

The oddest thing I came across was branches in the front yard. I was picking them up before I went to work yesterday morning and I discovered that the hurricane didn't rip them off trees, some genius probably cut them off and then set them out for the trash. So the four big branches in our cul-de-sac were not from the hurricane, but from the killer saw.

Went back to work on Friday, no one there was affected either. So all in all it looks like Isabel was a little entertainment for the week at least for the folks I worked with and our neighborhood.

My Aunt however had no power for 12 hours, and the only person killed in NC was my uncle's brother-in-law brother. I feel so southernish typing that

Posted: Sat - September 20, 2003 at 10:27 AM           |

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