Hopefully the legacy will still be here after Friday :(

[boostjunkie]

Nope, I'm not gonna get rid of it, but all this talk about a hurricane coming through the area doesn't make me feel too good about having a car out in the elements. It's supposed to head up passed DC and Baltimore (which are 15 min and 45 minutes away from me, respectively). Pretty crazy stuff . . . we'll see what happens tomorrow night/Friday morning . . .

Wish me luck!

[Dr Nick]

Hey boostjunkie - all the best for the next couple of days. Over here in the UK we rarely/never get any sort of weather like that so we'll be thinking/praying for you.

Let us know what happens.

[boostjunkie]

Yeah, we don't usually get this kinda weather and the last time we had a hurricane around here (maybe 10-15 years ago) it was a smaller one. Although the severity of the storm keeps changing. We're all in the dark here. All I know is that all hell is breaking loose at the grocery stores and such . . . I spent 1.5hours just looking for D-cell batteries for my mag lite because all of the stores were sold out!!

This is the latest info I got off of weather.com:
Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service

...HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 1220 PM EDT WED SEP 17 2003
... HURRICANE ISABEL CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHWEST TOWARD THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST...

... TROPICAL STORM WARNINGS FOR AREAS ADJACENT TO THE TIDAL POTOMAC AND MARYLAND PORTION OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY...

... INLAND TROPICAL STORM WIND WATCH IN EFFECT INLAND THURSDAY AFTERNOON INTO FRIDAY MORNING...

... FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT INLAND THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...

... AREAS AFFECTED... A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR LOCATIONS ALONG THE CHESAPEAKE BAY NORTH OF SMITH POINT AND ALONG THE TIDAL POTOMAC.

THIS TROPICAL STORM WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN MARYLAND... CALVERT... ST MARYS... ANNE ARUNDEL... BALTIMORE... CHARLES... HARFORD AND PRINCE GEORGES COUNTIES INCLUDING BALTIMORE CITY.

THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

AND IN VIRGINIA... ARLINGTON... FAIRFAX... PRINCE WILLIAM... STAFFORD... AND KING GEORGE COUNTIES INCLUDING THE INDEPENDENT CITIES OF ALEXANDRIA... FALLS CHURCH... FAIRFAX CITY... MANASSAS... AND MANASSAS PARK.

AT 11 AM EDT... 1500Z... THE CENTER OF HURRICANE ISABEL WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 30.0 NORTH... LONGITUDE 72.6 WEST OR ABOUT 400 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF CAPE HATTERAS NORTH CAROLINA... .MOVING NORTH NORTHWEST AT 9 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 957 MB WITH MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 110 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THIS MAKES ISABEL A STRONG CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR SIMPSON SCALE.

... PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PERSONS LOCATED IN AND NEAR THE POSTED TROPICAL STORM WARNING AREAS SHOULD PREPARE NOW FOR HIGH WINDS AND SIGNIFICANT COASTAL FLOODING. PEOPLE INLAND SHOULD PREPARE FOR STRONG WINDS... HEAVY RAIN... AND SMALL STREAM AND RIVER FLOODING.

... RAINFALL AND INLAND FLOODING... RAINFALL TOTALS FOR THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY OF 3 TO 6 INCHES ARE EXPECTED IN THE BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON AREAS... OVER THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AND ACROSS MARYLAND EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE. FOR THE PIEDMONT AND MOUNTAIN AREAS OF MARYLAND... VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA... RAINFALL TOTALS OF 6 TO 10 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF 12 INCHES OR MORE. THIS WOULD CAUSE SERIOUS AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY FLASH FLOODING AND MUDSLIDES. THERE IS ALSO THE POTENTIAL FOR MAJOR FLOODING OF SOME MAINSTEM RIVERS.

... STORM SURGE... WAVES AND TIDAL FLOODING... THE THREAT OF STORM SURGE WILL BE ON THE INCREASE LATE THURSDAY INTO EARLY FRIDAY. ALONG THE WESTERN SHORE OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY TIDAL SURGES OF 3 TO 6 FEET ARE POSSIBLE. THIS SURGE WOULD BE ON TOP OF THE NORMAL TIDE AND THEN WAVES OF 4 TO 7 FEET MAY OCCUR ON TOP OF THAT. ALONG THE NORTH SHORE OF THE TIDAL POTOMAC IN CHARLES AND ST MARYS COUNTIES A STORM SURGE OF 4 TO 7 FEET IS POSSIBLE. THE REMAINDER OF THE TIDAL POTOMAC COULD SEE SURGES OF 4 TO 6 FEET.

... HIGH TIDES... WASHINGTON DC 2:33 PM THU 2:42 AM FRI 3:23 PM FRI BALTIMORE HARBOR 12:14 PM THU 2:07 AM FRI 1:18 PM FRI THOMAS POINT LIGHT 12:05 AM FRI 11:15 AM FRI ... WIND AND TORNADO INFORMATION... TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS AT TIMES OF 40 TO 60 MPH WILL BEGIN AFFECTING SOUTHERN MARYLAND MIDDAY THURSDAY AND WILL SPREAD INLAND THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE WINDS WILL CAUSE DAMAGE TO TREES AND UTILITY LINES.

ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE AS THE BANDS OF INTENSE RAINS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING....

I'll let you guys know what's up on Friday (if I have power, that is). Thanks guys!

[inzomniac]

Good luck man.. just don't park near any trees!! It's headed my way after it looses it's momentum but we're supposed to get a TON of rain, and this city likes to flood, fortunately I'm way up high but my friends all live in the lower areas, so I'll be out and about with my electric water pump saving their basements again

[boostjunkie]

The storm should be tired out after wasting all of us down here. I was told not to park near any trees around here, but that's REALLY hard considering that the whole area around me and the parking areas are covered with trees!

I might just park in a garage up the street . . . might get a ticket, but that's better than a tree through the hood!

[Grant]

Get your car in that garage. Saving a rare beauty is worth it. I'll personally donate $5 to help pay any ticket you get. Plus who's going to be in there giving tickets? Good luck waiting out the storm. I was in Hong Kong during a typhoon in 1996 and it was no fun. Stuck in our hotel for a few days was no fun. Thank god for Heineken.