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Testing the test
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This is a test to see if this really works. Hurricane Isabel plowed into North Carolina's Outer Banks with 100 mph winds Thursday and pushed its way up the Eastern Seaboard, weakening to a tropical storm by evening - but not before swamping roads and knocking out power to more than 2.5 million people. Isabel was blamed for at least four traffic deaths, two deaths from falling trees, and the electrocution of a utility employee. The storm that once had threatened 160 mph winds and a 12-foot storm surge rolled in around midday just south of isolated Ocracoke Island with a 5-foot surge and gusts that rattled plywood boards spray-painted "Bring it on Izzy." "A lot of trees are down - there's one down across the garage," Rudy Austin said as he looked out on his yard in Ocracoke surrounded by a knee-deep soup of sea water and debris. "There's a lot of stuff floating around: boards and buoys and boxes and young'uns' plastic toys." The storm downed trees, snarled air traffic and knocked out electricity - more than 2 million customers were without power in North Carolina and southeastern Virginia alone. More than 430,000 customers in Maryland, 78,000 in the District of Columbia and 10,000 in New Jersey also lost power. In North Carolina, a utility employee was electrocuted while restoring power, and in Virginia two people were killed by falling trees, one of which toppled onto a house. The storm also was blamed for the deaths of three motorists in Virginia and one in Maryland. Isabel's top sustained wind eased to around 65 mph by late evening and was expected to continue to weaken. National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield said fast-moving Isabel still posed a threat because of its dimensions - about the size of Colorado - and its potential to bring 3 to 5 inches of rain and flooding to an East Coast already sodden from one of the wettest summers in years. "This is certainly not over for people experiencing Hurricane Isabel," he said. "This hurricane will not be remembered for how strong it is. It will be remembered for how large it is." The storm spread rain across North Carolina and Virginia and into Maryland, Delaware and parts of West Virginia and Pennsylvania. In Harlowe, a small community about 25 miles inland from the Outer Banks, about 30 to 40 homes were destroyed, either by winds, falling trees or flooding, said Jeremy Brown, chief of Harlowe's volunteer fire department. He estimated about 200 homes were flooded. Firefighters rescued a mother and her two children who were stranded by the flood waters, Brown said. But the flooding receded quickly, said resident Joe Fernandez, who watched the water rise over his street and yard. "It was like a toilet flushing. It just came up and went down," Fernandez said. On the Outer Banks, the storm destroyed the 540-foot Jennette's Pier in Nags Head and at least two beach houses, where a storm surge picked up a washer, dryer and refrigerator and carried them about 500 feet down the street. In York County, Va., sheriff's deputies rescued a family of seven trapped on a street when trees fell and blocked the path to their car, county spokesman Greg Davy said.
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Title: Testing the test
Words: 2594
Rating: None
Pages: 10.4
submitted by: georgebk57
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