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Hurricane Isabel: Residents in D.C. Area Still Looking for Relief
Aired September 23, 2003 - 07:38 ET
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Now back to Isabel and those trying to return to normal. Easier said than done for so many finding themselves in the path of that storm.
As CNN's Patty Davis tells us this morning, residents in the D.C. area still looking for relief and in many cases still looking for power.
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PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The days roll on as utility crews work to restore power. Thousands still in the dark are losing patience.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, you know, saving what food I can.
DAVIS: Like Joe Barrett (ph) of Silver Spring, Maryland.
BARRETT: It's incompetent, you know? My son is in Iraq and he laughed and he said, you know, they'll have power in Baghdad before we get our power squared away down her.
DAVIS: In Washington, D.C., 77-year-old Willie Mae Dunn (ph) is angry, too.
WILLIE DUNN: You can't wash, you can't do nothing. And it's terrible, you know? And you call them and they say we've got to have patience. But look, you give out of patience.
DAVIS: Answers as to when power will be restored are hard to come by.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Am I upset? It's causing some problems between me and my wife and my children. This, man, this, I don't know what it ain't causing.
DAVIS: With 1,600 crews working day and night alongside crews from as far away as Georgia, utility company Pepco hopes to restore electricity in Washington and suburban Maryland by Friday. Pepco says the storm and falling trees knocked down 3,500 power lines in D.C. and Maryland. Dominion Power says nearly 7,400 power lines were downed in Virginia and North Carolina and it's still counting.
(on camera): Now, it is day five without power here in Silver Spring, Maryland, in this particular neighborhood. You can see behind me, trees still down on the road, power lines still down on the road. Now, adding insult to injury, torrential rain overnight, more than two inches here in the Washington, D.C. area. That has brought down even more trees, more power lines and slowed crews. And we've also had numerous rescues of people in their cars this morning in Montgomery County because of high water -- Bill.
HEMMER: Patty Davis, thanks for that.
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Aired September 23, 2003 - 07:38 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Now back to Isabel and those trying to return to normal. Easier said than done for so many finding themselves in the path of that storm.
As CNN's Patty Davis tells us this morning, residents in the D.C. area still looking for relief and in many cases still looking for power.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The days roll on as utility crews work to restore power. Thousands still in the dark are losing patience.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, you know, saving what food I can.
DAVIS: Like Joe Barrett (ph) of Silver Spring, Maryland.
BARRETT: It's incompetent, you know? My son is in Iraq and he laughed and he said, you know, they'll have power in Baghdad before we get our power squared away down her.
DAVIS: In Washington, D.C., 77-year-old Willie Mae Dunn (ph) is angry, too.
WILLIE DUNN: You can't wash, you can't do nothing. And it's terrible, you know? And you call them and they say we've got to have patience. But look, you give out of patience.
DAVIS: Answers as to when power will be restored are hard to come by.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Am I upset? It's causing some problems between me and my wife and my children. This, man, this, I don't know what it ain't causing.
DAVIS: With 1,600 crews working day and night alongside crews from as far away as Georgia, utility company Pepco hopes to restore electricity in Washington and suburban Maryland by Friday. Pepco says the storm and falling trees knocked down 3,500 power lines in D.C. and Maryland. Dominion Power says nearly 7,400 power lines were downed in Virginia and North Carolina and it's still counting.
(on camera): Now, it is day five without power here in Silver Spring, Maryland, in this particular neighborhood. You can see behind me, trees still down on the road, power lines still down on the road. Now, adding insult to injury, torrential rain overnight, more than two inches here in the Washington, D.C. area. That has brought down even more trees, more power lines and slowed crews. And we've also had numerous rescues of people in their cars this morning in Montgomery County because of high water -- Bill.
HEMMER: Patty Davis, thanks for that.
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