Hurricane Isabel Damage Photos

various | 9/22/2003

[lainie]

Solomons Island, MD

center right is the Tiki Bar, at low tide the next morning:

Solomon's Pier -- there used to be a gazebo & bar at the end:

Norfolk, VA

Naval base fleet parking lot:

Anne Arundel County, MD

St. Mary's County, MD
Coltons Point Marina -- yacht broke through

Havre de Grace, MD
What's left of the promenade:

Baltimore Inner Harbor
Hard Rock Cafe:

Pratt St. crosswalk

Old Town Alexandria, VA

Northern VA

D.C.

Takoma Park, MD (downed power line)

Portsmouth, VA

[lainie]

Some new and lesser-shown images from the storm's aftermath.

[dakine]

Chuck County bump..

[lainie]

Got any? All I knew where to look was for St. Mary's & Solomons (and my shutterbug friends are there).

Another Tiki pic, 185k

[mrs tiggywinkle]

Goodness! Thank you for posting these pictures, lainie. My sister in law (and family) are still without power in Ellicott City, Maryland. What a wild ride that storm must have been.

Prayer heavenward for those who lost their lives. <><

[lainie]

34 so far :(

[lainie]

Glen Arm, MD

[lainie]

Fells Point (Baltimore, MD) panoramic photo

[BonnieJ]

Thank you for sharing these pictures. So much damage and heartache for many. It kind of keeps things in perspective, all the comparatively trivial things we worry about. Prayers and good wishes for all of you affected.

[iceskater]

Thanks. Makes my problems from Isabel seem pretty insignificant.

[U S Army EOD]

A lot of this is my old stomping, and sailing grounds. What a crying shame. I am so sorry.

[lainie]

They're my old stomping grounds, too. I'm in CA right now. I have friends & family from MD to NC, all of whom came through the storm with minimal problems, thankfully.

[Born Conservative]

bttt

[SGCOS]

Ted Kennedy, in a rare display of talent, demonstrates he can drive a boat into the harbor as well as he can drive a car over a bridge.

[lainie]

The Hague & Boush Streets in Norfolk

Virginia Beach resort oceanfront preparation

[lainie]

Durant Station, built around an old lifesaving station, was one of four motels in Hatteras Village destroyed by Isabel's whipping winds and oceanside storm surge.

[Prospero]

Belhaven, NC - Landfall of the eye of Isabel. In Hyde County, between there and the Outer Banks, 95 percent of the homes are uninhabitable. Some in the Inner Banks are told to expect electricity in two to three weeks.

http://www.gotricounty.com/content.php?channel_id=1063977644&content_id=1064249775

[lainie]

Oh my word. What's the status on the Outer Banks? Is Ocracoke still there?

[lainie]

Elise Felman and her son, Josh, 11, of Leonardtown, Md. navigate a pier that starts to break up from the force of waves stirred up by Hurricane Isabel Thursday. Josh wanted to experience the storm to receive extra credit for school.
(Sun photo by Karl Merton Ferron)

From the Government School Near-Darwin Awards Category

[Prospero]

More Inner and Outer Banks destruction... Does not require highbandwidth...

http://www.gotricounty.com/content.php?channel_id=1063977644&content_id=1064154895

and..

http://www.gotricounty.com/content.php?channel_id=1063977644&content_id=1063985158

[lainie]

Kitty Hawk NC.

(Probably won't be featured in any commercials.)

[Prospero]

Yes, Okracoke is still there. There was a complete evacuation. Even the old salters left.

They fared well enough, time tested as they are... Generators are up. 50 power poles out to sea. The mainland, particularly Swan Quarter, saw high water. Long Distance power transmission lines were hit, leaving with them without power for many days to come. Here on the other side of the Pungo, our power returned, thanks to western NC crews, yesterday pm.

[lainie]

New inlet formed along Hwy. 12. Where?

Thanks for the great picture links. Glad to hear you came through. My immediate family's in Va Beach and extendeds are in Martin County. They did also.

Question -- I heard about a report that the big dunes on the Outer Banks had shifted, or some had disappeared. Any news on that?

[lainie]

Wow, Hatteras Village is now an island.

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=59982&ran=125940

[meyer]

Thanks for posting the images. They show the power of even a cat-2 storm.

[lainie]

The only drawback is that it's a pain to keep loading.

Incredible, isn't it?

[Prospero]

I understand the dunes washed away were of the artificial kind, on the Island. North of the New Inlet, put in place by the Corp.

The natural dunes, the Ridge and elsewhere are barely moved. You might check http://www.womacknewspapers.com/obsentinel/

[TBall]

Bump. Did anyone notice bright green flashes in the sky during the storm?

[OESY]

Having lost two homes to hurricanes (Hugo 1979 and Marilyn 1985), I am very sympathetic to those who have been affected by Isabel. My heart goes out to you. Keep the faith. Things will get better.

[OESY]

Make those years for Hugo 1989 and for Marilyn 1995. How much we wanted to forget the experiences.

[HanneyBean]

Re: Belhaven - WOW
My mom grew up there. Still have aunts and uncles that live there - Incredible pictures!

[Ranxerox]

Here's a Tiki Bar Mai-Tai bump for ya. I used to live on Solomons back in 1983-1984, and spent many a summer night sipping Mai Tai's at the Tiki Bar. Also helped build the Solomons Pier into its current incarnation from a down-home watermans crab house. The Tiki Bar will reopen, no doubt; there simply isn't that much to it.

[Prospero]

After Bertha, Earl, Fran, Dennis, Floyd... Belhaven was prepared, in a way. And the surge came with the southwesterlies the accompanied the backside of the eyewall. The actual flooding lasted only fifteen minutes and the power outage lasted only a few hours. Nearby areas did not fare as well.

In today's Washington Daily News

http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2003/09/23/news/news03.txt

[lainie]

We were there at the same time then, how about that. (GM class of 85).