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[inthecorneroverhere]

I'll keep this one alive. I'm in the Carolinas but pretty far west and south of the projected track.

I noticed that Isabel hasn't really made that strong NW turn yet, so I'll be watching closely the next day or two to see where it goes.

If it goes south of track and comes in via Charleston and goes across SC inland, then I gotta think about the odds of a tree falling on the house and about living without power for several days. We got the snowstorm last winter but it wasn't really that big a deal. I just snuggled in for a couple of days.

I'm a little more concerned about a hurricane (if it stays at hurricane strength) than a snowstorm because of the possibility of uprooted trees falling on roads, houses etc. We didn't get an ice storm like some other parts of the state did, however.

I filled up my gas tank today, just in case, and have a week's worth of food in the house.

The soil is quite saturated, even up in the western Carolinas, so folks are concerned about trees possibly being uprooted.

Was at the grocery store today - there was a shipment of water at the store but no major buying. There are lots of streams in the area, and also lots of outdoors people like mountain bikers, hikers etc., so many may have purifiers.