La Belle Isabel

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Amazing hurricaine photograph - Apparently this photo (above) is a hoax, but we still like it and think our suggested caption of "Um, Helm? You might consider turning a wee bit to starboard," works. Gothamist also liked the photograph (below) of North Carolina nursing residents leaving the building yesterday. Ah, Isabel.

Times: Isabel hits North Carolina
Washington Post: 750,000 lose power in Virgina

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

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wow--where was that taken?

damn. that's a crazy photo!

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

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

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YEP, YOU GUYS WERE PUNKED. ACCORDING TO
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_isabel_photo.htm THAT'S TROPICAL STORM GRAHAM.

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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.

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Woo hoo! Punk'd over a hurricaine photograph!

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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.

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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.

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