# Hold onto your butts Mid-Atlantic Dopers. Here comes Isabel!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 14, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594 "2003-09-14T17:53:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/1 "2003-09-14T17:53:20Z")
It’s a beautiful sunny day here in Chesapeake country. How could this mean old hurricane be coming straight up my tailpipe! [ISABEL AIMS AT MOUTH OF CHESAPEAKE BAY](http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT13/refresh/AL1303W5+GIF/081203W5.gif) ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/2 "2003-09-14T18:35:05Z")
That black dotted line goes straight over my house here in Chesapeake, VA. Uh-oh. ---
**Author:** ![2leftshoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/bc8723/32.png) [@2leftshoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2leftshoes)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/3 "2003-09-14T18:39:04Z")
sucks for you guys dont it. ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/4 "2003-09-14T19:20:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 2leftshoes \* > \*\*sucks for you guys dont it. \*\* Bah! I’ve been through my fair share of hurricanes. Plus, I have long since categorized everything I own into one of two categories: 1) things I actually care about and 2) torch it for all I care. Everything in category #1 can fit into my car. And even my broken-down piece of junk can drive faster than a hurricane. ---
**Author:** ![Anita\_Vacation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Anita\_Vacation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anita_Vacation)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/5 "2003-09-14T21:27:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 2leftshoes \* > \*\*sucks for you guys dont it. \*\* After it hits us it’ll rain down on you for a good bit, so let’s all pucker up and blow hard to the east and make it go away! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/6 "2003-09-14T21:54:15Z")
There is one good thing about living in a more northerly direction. The water’s so cold around these parts that if that old girl makes it all the way up here, we’ll be able to suck of few catagories out of her before she lands. She can’t land any where new New York City. We’re waterlogged. Long Ilsland will probably just bloat up and float away. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/7 "2003-09-14T22:05:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RotorHead \* > That black dotted line goes straight over my house here in Chesapeake, VA. And straight over _my_ house in Chesapeake Beach, MD. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/8 "2003-09-14T22:40:57Z")
i think this one has a few tricks hidden in the eye wall. i’m thinking she is gonna hit further north than expected. biggirl’s got it right, izzy’s gonna hit colder water and weaken a bit. where was she when we were high and dry a year or 2 ago? henri is giving us quite a bit of water here. ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/9 "2003-09-15T00:31:34Z")
[QUOTE] Long Ilsland will probably just bloat up and float away.[\QUOTE] Damn well better not! You’d miss me! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/10 "2003-09-15T00:49:29Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Cosmopolitan \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Long Ilsland will probably just bloat up and float away.[\QUOTE] Damn well better not! You’d miss me! \*\* Don’t worry **Cosmo** , we here in Brooklyn and Queens will be right there with you. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/11 "2003-09-15T01:02:36Z")
As long as it is reduced enough to not cause property damage, I’m all for it. I LOVE ME SOME GOOD STORMIN! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/12 "2003-09-15T01:21:05Z")
Hmm… Dunno… if it stays at Hurricane level, even if only Cat-1 (sustained wind 70+ mph), it can do a number on ya. And this mother is big and moving _slow_. That means many heaping inches of the wet stuff on any given location. And if it chills enough to go down to TropStorm level, that may cause it to drop even more of that water. But how are the Gulf Stream and the westerlies doing these days, temperature-wise? Just in case make sure y’all have: Batteries, flashlights, bottled water, fueled chainsaw, canned foods, **manual** can opener (honestly, some people…), camp stove, cash, TP. Shutter up the house. Preferrably, head for high ground if yer on or near the water. It passed like a ridiculous number of miles to the north of me today, and even there it actually changed the winds at the surface and aloft enough that aircraft into and out of SJU were flying a pattern completely reversed from normal. ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/13 "2003-09-15T01:24:01Z")
I’m seriously thinking about relocating. I live 10 feet above sea level. There is a brackish pond very close-by that rises and falls with the tide. And there is a monster magnolia tree in the front yard which dwarfs the house. I doubt the flooding will be any issue here, but if that tree goes, it may well take out the entire house. Not my house anyway. I feel some responsibility toward keeping it in good condition, but I don’t plan on being in it if the tree goes. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/14 "2003-09-15T02:24:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*And straight over _my_ house in Chesapeake Beach, MD. \*\* And Stately Doors Mansion here in Carlisle, PA. Best to stock up on plastic sheeting and duct tape, huh? 😉 😃 Robin ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/15 "2003-09-15T02:34:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RotorHead \* > \*\*Bah! I’ve been through my fair share of hurricanes. Plus, I have long since categorized everything I own into one of two categories: 1) things I actually care about and 2) torch it for all I care. > > Everything in category #1 can fit into my car. And even my broken-down piece of junk can drive faster than a hurricane. \*\* Not if everyone else waits as long as you do … ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/16 "2003-09-15T02:49:10Z")
Vast majority of the traffic would be going in a different direction than I will. So I am safe on that. Still, I won’t wait that long to decide. Lack of fear, not lack of respect for the hydro-behemoth. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/17 "2003-09-15T03:20:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rocking chair \* > \*\*i think this one has a few tricks hidden in the eye wall. i’m thinking she is gonna hit further north than expected. biggirl’s got it right, izzy’s gonna hit colder water and weaken a bit. where was she when we were high and dry a year or 2 ago? henri is giving us quite a bit of water here. \*\* Well, we a couple of years ago hurrican Floyd did get the mid-Atlantic region out of a drought. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/18 "2003-09-15T03:30:15Z")
Normally the tail-end of the hurricanes hit Atlantic Canada, but it seems that Isabel will be headed towards Lake Ontario. Looks like some stormy weather for Toronto. Let’s hope it’s not another Hazel!! I hope for the sake of all of you out on the coast that she slows up a bit before getting to you. Hang in there! ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/19 "2003-09-15T04:07:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*There is one good thing about living in a more northerly direction. The water’s so cold around these parts that if that old girl makes it all the way up here, we’ll be able to suck of few catagories out of her before she lands. > She can’t land any where new New York City. We’re waterlogged. Long Ilsland will probably just bloat up and float away. \*\* It damn well better be done by one week from today, then! My cousin is supposed to get married next Sunday on Long Beach Island at my aunt’s house, which is literally on the beach…well, I guess it would be a wedding nobody would forget. I hope they have enough wetsuits for the whole wedding party… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594/20 "2003-09-15T05:19:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Looks like some stormy weather for Toronto. . Oh crud. Another thing for the vendors to add to their ‘I survived Toronto’ T-shirts… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hold-onto-your-butts-mid-atlantic-dopers-here-comes-isabel/201594.md?page=2)