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Called my youngest brother this AM at high tide. He raised his house 9 feet when Isabel put 2.5 feet of water in his living room. I almost fell down laughing when he told me he was "fishing for car parts". A plastic container with some of his sons car parts had floated out of his garage into the neighbors yard and he was casting his fishing rod trying to hook the bucket before it got too far away. He had 2 feet of water in his garage but the much larger garage in the back was still 6 inches above the high tide.

I think this is my fathers 15th hurricane experience, but it really doesn't count unless there are hurricane force winds. When he was 12 (1933) his father moved his family to a hotel in downtown Norfolk. The 1933 storm wiped willoughby spit clean of houses. The spit was formed in a storm in 1649 that raised the Chesapeake Bay water level by 15 feet and formed the spit. The Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel does not land on the spit when it gets to Norfolk because the spit is liable to get wiped out again in a storm.

All we got where I live is rain and some wind. but not enough to do any damage, but we did dodge a bullet with this storm. It could have been much worse and it seems like NYC got lucky as well. but they will not know for sure until tomorrow morning. Lived near the coast most of my life.

regards
Mech