Isabel Leaves 17 Dead, Millions Without Power, Flooding; From Space; Biggest WX Day
Isabel, a tropical storm by Friday morning with 40 mph winds, came ashore just before 1 p.m. Thursday in North Carolina. Some received 10 inches of rain and 100 mph winds, leaving damage and flooding. The storm has killed 17, and more than 4.3 million were without power across the East Coast as of Friday morning. Here’s a radar loop from the National Weather Service. Get the latest on Isabel via Google News, and in the links from yesterday’s entry below.
NASA takes spectacular pics of Isabel from space
WXnation.com saw its largest day yesterday, as traffic more than doubled the previous record set during the Feb. 2003 President’s Day winter storm along the East Coast. See our Top 10 weather days of 2003.
