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Isabel Heading for East Coast
Aired September 16, 2003 - 05:22 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Oh, grab the dog, check your supplies and hunker down, Hurricane Isabel is heading for the U.S. East Coast. Let's see how people are preparing along the North Carolina coast.
Nick Smith of CNN affiliate WTVD is live in Kill Devil Hills.
Good morning.
NICK SMITH, WTVD CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
How are you?
COSTELLO: Good.
How are you?
SMITH: Things here are well. The wind is rising a bit and people are just keeping their eyes to the skies. I don't need to tell you that. But the thing that we have the privilege of here at Kill Devil Hills is that most of the residents have been through this type of thing before.
In fact, if you look over my shoulder, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about with these high winds. The waves have just been rolling in like crazy for the last few hours here. We've been keeping our eyes on the temperature and just trying to track Isabel, like most of the people around the country are. We've been trying to monitor the situation because most of the people here have wanted to prepare for a storm that may or may not come this way. They've actually started boarding up their houses and things nice and early, most of the restaurants, because they've been through the Floyds and the Frans and the Hazels back 40 years ago.
So what they're trying to do is just monitor the situation and be as prepared, cautiously optimistic, prepared for the worst, but hoping for the best.
COSTELLO: Yes, Nick, are most people leaving? Because usually when I cover hurricanes, there are always those who stay.
SMITH: Right now it looks as though most of the people will be allowed to stay. If there is, indeed, an evacuation, Carol, the residents here will have identification cards that theyll be given so that they can actually come back and check on their property. But right now they have not been given the order to evacuate. There will be a meeting in town for the county here in Dare at 6:00 this morning. We will, of course, follow that and tell them what the latest situation is as far as Isabel.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you very much.
Nick Smith of CNN affiliate WTVD in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
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Aired September 16, 2003 - 05:22 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Oh, grab the dog, check your supplies and hunker down, Hurricane Isabel is heading for the U.S. East Coast. Let's see how people are preparing along the North Carolina coast.
Nick Smith of CNN affiliate WTVD is live in Kill Devil Hills.
Good morning.
NICK SMITH, WTVD CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
How are you?
COSTELLO: Good.
How are you?
SMITH: Things here are well. The wind is rising a bit and people are just keeping their eyes to the skies. I don't need to tell you that. But the thing that we have the privilege of here at Kill Devil Hills is that most of the residents have been through this type of thing before.
In fact, if you look over my shoulder, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about with these high winds. The waves have just been rolling in like crazy for the last few hours here. We've been keeping our eyes on the temperature and just trying to track Isabel, like most of the people around the country are. We've been trying to monitor the situation because most of the people here have wanted to prepare for a storm that may or may not come this way. They've actually started boarding up their houses and things nice and early, most of the restaurants, because they've been through the Floyds and the Frans and the Hazels back 40 years ago.
So what they're trying to do is just monitor the situation and be as prepared, cautiously optimistic, prepared for the worst, but hoping for the best.
COSTELLO: Yes, Nick, are most people leaving? Because usually when I cover hurricanes, there are always those who stay.
SMITH: Right now it looks as though most of the people will be allowed to stay. If there is, indeed, an evacuation, Carol, the residents here will have identification cards that theyll be given so that they can actually come back and check on their property. But right now they have not been given the order to evacuate. There will be a meeting in town for the county here in Dare at 6:00 this morning. We will, of course, follow that and tell them what the latest situation is as far as Isabel.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you very much.
Nick Smith of CNN affiliate WTVD in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
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