The sites that say the first picture is 'Tropical Storm Graham' are wrong too -- no way that's a tropical storm. If it were, and that close, the waves would be monstrous, whitecapping, etc. As opposed to how calm they are in the photo. The wind from a tropical storm doesn't just start up all of a sudden, like someone flipping a light switch, y'know.

How about this then? http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030916.html

yyou guys obviously werent in the path of the storm. Va had 16 hurricane deaths- more than ever before. there is a street 6 blocks from me that has 4 houses in a row( 4000 sq feet homes) that have probably 20 70 foot tall oaks crushing them. just laying on top of each other like dominoes. this whole region is like that.

Woo hoo! Punk'd over a hurricaine photograph!

wowww, Really impresionant

Yup, I knew there was something I didn't like about that picture, but I was thinking more along the lines of photoshop. That is not the Atlantic Ocean. The water is the wrong color.

YEP, YOU GUYS WERE PUNKED. ACCORDING TO

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_isabel_photo.htm THAT'S TROPICAL STORM GRAHAM.

The Isabel picture is a hoax. Cool, but a hoax:

It seems to have been intentionally mislabeled.

someone please post a link to a high res, or bigger copy of that beautifully wicked photo.

Funny how the eye wall curves around the other way like that.

damn. that's a crazy photo!

wow--where was that taken?

holy crap! that is an insane photo. i would go for the caption "um, does somebody have a change of underwear?"