did anyone see that reporter who was at the coast and he was doing that interview while trying to keep from flying away?

then he interviewed someone else and they had to hold on to eachother? it was hilarious.

nerds.

The part of Sterling, VA that I live in didn't get hit too badly. I never lost power, but I can't take a shower because our water may be contaminated :( Went over to my future in-laws' house in Fairfax city for my hygiene needs... their water is fine.

We were pretty lucky, no damage happened to our house. We spent half the day watching the pine trees in our backyard praying they wouldn't fall and crash into the pool. I was so excited when we got our power back on later that night! It was so nice to be able to fall asleep with my fan. It's crazy how the weather was beautiful today.... which just meant I got to wake up early and help clean up piles and piles of tree branches...We're just thankful that's all we had to do. A lot of people around us had several trees fall and hit thier houses.

In defense of my sister, I think some of you should lay off her.

I don't think you're justified in saying that she's ignorant just because she thinks the hurricane was overrated/overexposed/whatever. She probably is sympathetic that some of you lost family, lost power, had extensive damage to your property, some of y'all were just too freaking ready to jump down her throat that she probably didn't get the chance to explain what she really meant.

So...before any of you decide to jump down MY throat, YES I do know what it feels like to experience something like that. I do know how it feels to lose a freaking roof and spend months and thousands of dollars to rebuild.. My family lost our entire taro farm on Kauai because of Iniki 92, and I was watching Isabel closely and while it didn't directly affect me, I was keeping all of y'all in my thoughts.

Maybe I'm blind or something but I didnt post 2 seconds after she did. I dont think anyone needs "the chance" to start feeling sympathetic to other people's feelings. It was really offensive to see someone put that IGNORANT remark.

Perhaps some people could select their words a little more carefully.

It doesn't matter if it was 2 seconds, 2 hours, or 2 days.

I guess your definition of ignorance differs from mine. :rolleyes:

You can't expect everyone to feel the same way as you. And you shouldn't get pissed off when that happens.

If she thinks Isabel was overrated, she thinks Isabel was overrated. :rolleyes:

Maybe what she meant was that Isabel was overrated for her area. Like maybe the media hyped it up a lot in PA and then it turned out to be nothing in PA.

I can see where people could have taken offense to the comment. People who were dramatically affected are going to feel like that kind of comment is insensitive. I would never say 9/11 was overrated just because I didn't lose anyone. And I won't say that this hurricane was overrated just because none of my property was damaged.

So yes, perhaps words could have been chosen more carefully, but I doubt she meant it in a mean or offensive way.

Thats what I was thinking when I saw her post.. that she could have just thought it was overrated in her area.. sometimes people write something and it comes out wrong. We are just reading it.. its hard to really understand sometimes what people mean without hearing the way the say it is, etc.

Well back to about Isabel...

at my home my parents say its crazy... they have packed some stuff and are headed this way since we are fine on the other side of VA. Trees and power lines are down everywhere right now still. So you cant even drive around town. There is only place where you can get food bc they are using a generator I believe.. so like everyone in town has been eating there... Im sure they are loving it.

My parents had to go out in the middle of the other night too... they got a phone call from the police in the middle of the night.. the alarm was going off at my dad's work.. so he had to go there to check it out.. (he is the chief of probation and parole in Richmond)... they said it took them forever to get from our house to 95 bc of all the down trees and power lines.. once they finally got on 95 there was no one on there....

Still no power in Delta, PA. GRRRRRR!!!!!!!

Our power is back on!!!! but our cable is still out-damn Comcast!
Power went out Thursday night and we were told that it would be back on by 6am, then 8pm, then Sunday night, then Tuesday night......thank heavens it didn't take that long. PP&L said it was the worst power loss they've experienced in 83 years.

Isabel didn't really do that much physical damage in my area, except for some downed branches and a little bit of flooding-the electricity was the worst part. It really wasn't even that windy. But I'm glad that that's all that happened. Good luck to everyone who got hit really bad-your in my thoughts.:)

damn, can anyone have an opinion on this site without people's panties getting in a bunch? people on this site are way too sensitive about things. damn, if she didn't think isabel was too bad, oh well...live with it and call it a day. she's not trying to change anyone else's opinions. people take offense here when someone shits the wrong way.

In Central VA we were without power for about two days - it was turned back on/fixed this morning. It doesn't look like it was too bad around here other than that - no flooding, no downed trees. We were lucky to have our generator, which kept our fridge running, our water, and about three lights - but my dad was worried about running out of fuel for it, so we only ran it for a few hours at a time.

I don't think she meant to be offensive. At all.

We didn't have power for 2 days, it came on yesterday. It was really erie to be in complete blackness. I saw this one tree that grew in the sidewalk, the sucker pulled up the concrete!!:eek:

Well, now that Isabel has blown it self out, and at least all of the people (GCers) are safe, Let us get over the pissing contest of what we thought of someones idea of a female blow!

Remember in May, the Tornado that went through the K C Area.

It is more selective in scope, I know, I was at the edge (3) blocks away and lost nothing. My best Freind Book-Um was 1 block away and nothing, but for a 4 block on his area, all was gone.

Anytime something like a Hurrican, (Typhoon in the Pacifac) is bad just like Quakes in West Coast or Tornados in the Mid West, it is VERY BAD!:(

Just be Glad that We are alright and can typo about it!:)