Thinking back 15 years, I remember Hurricane Isabel. I was ready for it but my wife was not. When the wind reached a screaming pitch with the trees snapping and threshing, the horizontal streaming rain, flying roofing iron and destroyed fences as well as the unnerving sound-levels, my wife was rooted to the spot. She stared and stared through the glass of the window. Immovable, with her nose pressed to the windowpane, the stark fear in her eyes will stay with me forever. Fortunately, as the eye of the storm arrived and the winds temporarily lessened, I was able to open the door and let her in.

As someone who also “enjoyed” Isabel, I will admit, I did not see where this was headed and I got a good chuckle

Thank you

I also had the pleasure of enjoying Isabel and did not see where that was going. I had to laugh.

We lived near the fan then, and went 13 days without power.

The crappy part was the week before we had just gotten a BJ's membership and stocked up on steak, pork chops, etc..

I learned Sanka Instant coffee still sucks, and it is hard to cook a frozen pizza on a hibachi charcoal grill.

Haha, that was great. Had me right to the end.

Nice! Haha

I rode out Isabel in Elizabeth City. I tore some stuff up for a cat 1. That was funny tho!

You had me, JIm.

Isabel was a crash course in being resourceful. 6 days without water, 13 days without power, and one very flooded basement. Weird thing is I kind of enjoyed it a little.

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I still have my generator which I bought after Isabel.

^^^ Yep, me too. I had heard of a local John Deere dealer getting a delivery the day before, so the morning after, we spent 3 hours cutting our way out of the neighborhood with chain saws, then an hour and a half finding a passable route there, and I managed to pick up one each for me and my parents.

Then for the next 13 days it was scrounging cords, plugs, gas, charcoal, propane, camp stoves, water, you name it. Then I didn't need the generator for 7 years after that.

. That was good.

The surf prior to Isabel was amazing. It is the only time I ever came close to drowning at VA Beach. I got some incredible rides.

(Jack Benny voice) Now cut that out!



Pretty funny.

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Originally posted by jigray3:
You had me, JIm.

Isabel was a crash course in being resourceful. 6 days without water, 13 days without power, and one very flooded basement. Weird thing is I kind of enjoyed it a little.

I was managing a grocery store, down in bottoms bridge,

11 days or so no power,
store had a well and septic, so no water after the supply tower out back ran out,

we are well and septic as well, and lost power for 2 weeks,

fortunately, my Mother is on county water, so we could at least stop by her place and take a cold shower,


had a tiny generator that kept a few lights and the fridge going,,