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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) 2 (jesse{at}weathermatrix.com)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 12:26:43 EDT

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FULL STORY:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030917/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_isabel_40

QUOTES:

By EMERY P. DALESIO, Associated Press Writer

"RODANTHE, N.C. - Cars, recreational vehicles and SUVs streamed inland from
North Carolina's Outer Banks on Tuesday as up to 90,000 people were urged
to get out of the way of Hurricane Isabel, the most powerful storm in four
years to menace the mid-Atlantic coast.

By Tuesday evening, grocery stores and restaurants were closed or shuttered
and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was barred to visitors. The main beach
highway, N.C. 12, was unusually barren of traffic and the beaches nearly
desolate.

"Even a lot of old salts are bailing out," Brian Simmons said as he placed
plywood across the window of Stoney's Seafood in Avon. "I don't know if
it's some vibe they feel or something."

Thousands of tourists and others abandoned parts of North Carolina's Outer
Banks as rough surf pounded the thin, 120-mile-long chain of islands.

Isabel kept home-improvement stores bustling as people bought everything
from plywood to generators to chain saws. Lowe's estimated it sold 10,000
generators in nine days to coastal residents, and The Home Depot said it
had trucks coming in from as far as Toronto and Texas to help meet demand. "

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