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Kill Devil Hills Quiet Before Isabel Hits
Aired September 18, 2003 - 09:34 ET
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Brian Cabell on a hotel balcony in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina -- Brian.
BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bill, we've moved upstairs here over the last half hour or so to give you a slightly different perspective of things and give me a little bit of a respite from the winds and the rains out there.
You're looking pretty much due east right now, due east toward the sound, which is about a mile away or so. They're expecting flooding in the sound. And if you take a look to the right here, you're looking toward Virginia here and that was the way out of the outer banks. About eight miles up you run into a bridge and you can get out of the outer banks. Not many people leaving (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
You can see with the swinging traffic lights right now the winds are still strong. It frankly has not picked up all that much over the last hour or so. Holding steady probably around 40, 45-mile-per-hour with gusts a little bit more than that. And the rain has actually decreased I'd say over the last hour and a half. There was considerable flooding on that highway out there. There is very little flooding right now. So for the most part it's fairly dry.
But you can see there's not many -- what you're looking at right now are the satellite trucks. This is where we have all decided to take refuge. There's probably a dozen crews here along with various other journalists. Across the street you can see virtually all of the residents have left town. Estimates are that perhaps 90 percent of the residents of the outer banks have left town.
Businesses have left. See a little tattoo parlor over here. They still have their sign lit but they have been closed down for the last day or two. Evacuation, a mandatory evacuation actually took place about two days ago.
Let's switch to our other camera on the other side of the hotel. And you can see the seas. Seas do not look good right now. Gotten considerably rougher over the last I'd say two hours or so. We are expecting waves up to 20 feet high later on. It's really difficult to say what the -- see this swollen and figure out exactly how high those waves are right now. But this does not look like it looked yesterday and it's going to get considerably worse.
But as you can see right now, look at the car outside here. There is traffic on the streets, 40, 50-mile-per-hour winds. You can still drive along here, but police certainly have said anybody who is still on the islands here, please stay inside. And that's what we're doing for right now -- Bill.
HEMMER: It is not recommended to be out there. Brian, thanks. We'll check back in a bit later.
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Aired September 18, 2003 - 09:34 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Brian Cabell on a hotel balcony in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina -- Brian.
BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bill, we've moved upstairs here over the last half hour or so to give you a slightly different perspective of things and give me a little bit of a respite from the winds and the rains out there.
You're looking pretty much due east right now, due east toward the sound, which is about a mile away or so. They're expecting flooding in the sound. And if you take a look to the right here, you're looking toward Virginia here and that was the way out of the outer banks. About eight miles up you run into a bridge and you can get out of the outer banks. Not many people leaving (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
You can see with the swinging traffic lights right now the winds are still strong. It frankly has not picked up all that much over the last hour or so. Holding steady probably around 40, 45-mile-per-hour with gusts a little bit more than that. And the rain has actually decreased I'd say over the last hour and a half. There was considerable flooding on that highway out there. There is very little flooding right now. So for the most part it's fairly dry.
But you can see there's not many -- what you're looking at right now are the satellite trucks. This is where we have all decided to take refuge. There's probably a dozen crews here along with various other journalists. Across the street you can see virtually all of the residents have left town. Estimates are that perhaps 90 percent of the residents of the outer banks have left town.
Businesses have left. See a little tattoo parlor over here. They still have their sign lit but they have been closed down for the last day or two. Evacuation, a mandatory evacuation actually took place about two days ago.
Let's switch to our other camera on the other side of the hotel. And you can see the seas. Seas do not look good right now. Gotten considerably rougher over the last I'd say two hours or so. We are expecting waves up to 20 feet high later on. It's really difficult to say what the -- see this swollen and figure out exactly how high those waves are right now. But this does not look like it looked yesterday and it's going to get considerably worse.
But as you can see right now, look at the car outside here. There is traffic on the streets, 40, 50-mile-per-hour winds. You can still drive along here, but police certainly have said anybody who is still on the islands here, please stay inside. And that's what we're doing for right now -- Bill.
HEMMER: It is not recommended to be out there. Brian, thanks. We'll check back in a bit later.
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