HURRICANE ISABEL PROMPTS TECHNICAL RESCUE RESPONSE

摘要

Hurricane isabel, a category 2 hurricane, made landfall during the early afternoon of September 18, 2003, between Cape Lookout and Okacroke Island, North Carolina. It moved northwest at 20 miles per hour across eastern North Carolina before it was downgraded to a tropical storm. It continued to move up the coast and affected the Mid-Atlantic area, including the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. In preparation for the ensuing storm, the federal and local governments and schools were closed; public transportation in the area was suspended. Isabel left hundreds of thousands without power, streets were submerged by flooding, sustained winds reached 60 miles per hour, and thousands of trees were toppled before the storm finally broke up over Southern Canada.