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CNN Live At Daybreak
Getting Ready for Hurricane Isabel
Aired September 16, 2003 - 06:04 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Let's head to Virginia now to check out the storm preps there. Our Jeanne Meserve is keeping an eye on things in Virginia Beach.
Here's Jeanne.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Isabel is so ferocious Navy ships in Norfolk will head to sea to ride her out.
For small boat owners on Willoughby Spit, a little spot of land formed by the continuance of two hurricanes in the 1600s, anticipating Isabel means winching and hauling and getting boats out of the water.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The same reason the whole Navy is leaving 1,000 yards from us. It's either safer in the deep water or in the front yard.
MESERVE: Marinas weren't the only ones doing a brisk business. With the trajectory of the storm uncertain, grocery and hardware stores all along the East Coast were racking up sales. From the Carolinas north, residents readied, fearing the storm just might hit them.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm preparing, yes. I've got plenty of things to drink, to keep, you know, everybody liquefied, and I've got a little bit of snack food and thinking about what you can fix without heat.
MESERVE: Property owners braced for the possible onslaught by boarding up windows, but given Isabel's advance billing, some people wondered if that would do any good.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If this thing hits us the way it might hit us, I'm not sure you can do anything to prepare for it.
MESERVE: That was not the view of federal, state and local governments, who are girding for the storm by pre-positioning personnel and equipment. And though Isabel is still days away from land, the governor of Virginia has already declared a state of emergency.
GOV. MARK WARNER, VIRGINIA: The state police, the National Guard and the State Department of Transportation have all also deployed or are in the process of deploying additional resources. MESERVE (on camera): Expected in the next 24 to 36 hours, decisions on evacuations. In Virginia Beach, people who live in flood-prone areas, mobile homes, people with disabilities or medical conditions and those who require electricity to run medical equipment are already being advised to consider getting out while the getting out is easy.
Jeanne Meserve, CNN, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired September 16, 2003 - 06:04 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Let's head to Virginia now to check out the storm preps there. Our Jeanne Meserve is keeping an eye on things in Virginia Beach.
Here's Jeanne.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Isabel is so ferocious Navy ships in Norfolk will head to sea to ride her out.
For small boat owners on Willoughby Spit, a little spot of land formed by the continuance of two hurricanes in the 1600s, anticipating Isabel means winching and hauling and getting boats out of the water.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The same reason the whole Navy is leaving 1,000 yards from us. It's either safer in the deep water or in the front yard.
MESERVE: Marinas weren't the only ones doing a brisk business. With the trajectory of the storm uncertain, grocery and hardware stores all along the East Coast were racking up sales. From the Carolinas north, residents readied, fearing the storm just might hit them.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm preparing, yes. I've got plenty of things to drink, to keep, you know, everybody liquefied, and I've got a little bit of snack food and thinking about what you can fix without heat.
MESERVE: Property owners braced for the possible onslaught by boarding up windows, but given Isabel's advance billing, some people wondered if that would do any good.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If this thing hits us the way it might hit us, I'm not sure you can do anything to prepare for it.
MESERVE: That was not the view of federal, state and local governments, who are girding for the storm by pre-positioning personnel and equipment. And though Isabel is still days away from land, the governor of Virginia has already declared a state of emergency.
GOV. MARK WARNER, VIRGINIA: The state police, the National Guard and the State Department of Transportation have all also deployed or are in the process of deploying additional resources. MESERVE (on camera): Expected in the next 24 to 36 hours, decisions on evacuations. In Virginia Beach, people who live in flood-prone areas, mobile homes, people with disabilities or medical conditions and those who require electricity to run medical equipment are already being advised to consider getting out while the getting out is easy.
Jeanne Meserve, CNN, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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