Anyone here from BETHESDA, MARYLAND?

[Valerie5555]

Was meaning to ask if anyone here's from BETHESDA, MARYLAND for there were a couple of people I knew indirectly who were from there and I was just wondering how everyone and everything there is doing in light of Hurricane Isabel........................

[youngred]

1. they're without power but for the most part ok

My Aunt lives there and I live 20 mins from it up foxhall road

[Valerie5555]

2. Oh good so certain people I knew indirectly seemed to have "weathered the

storm" all right.

[youngred]

4. probably

for the most part it completely missed DC. But the residents of Maryland are hopping mad because this is the second time in less that a month that they've suffered long term power outtages

[Valerie5555]

5. At least the Torontonians probably had to take their rain jackets and

umbrellas with them for they may have just experienced torrential rains.

[youngred]

6. heh, didn't even need that here

I was out in the storm that night with my friends, just a couple downpours and some nifty blue-greenish lightning

[Valerie5555]

8. So you were indoors when it rained eh

eom. Good. :)

[youngred]

9. no no!

I was running down the middle of Virginia Ave.

One can only be young once

[Valerie5555]

10. Didn't mind being soaked ???????????????? For when it rained when I am

outside, I usually liked taking refuge inside somewheree until it stopped raining, for I sometimes didn't like getting myself and my stuff soaked.

[youngred]

11. Well

I love storms, and always have. I enjoy going out in a downpour and dancing like a nut.

It was 1AM, there was nobody on the streets of DC and the storm wasn't any worse than thunderstorms I'd been in at home.

As for my stuff getting soaked, I just lost the shirt and dried it off when I got back to my friends room in her dryer

[On the Road]

3. I'm There Every Other Day

at my girlfriend's apartment. Much of Bethesda lost power on Thursday evening, but a lot of it was restored by the next day. Lots of large branches were blown down, and a few trees with soggy roots were toppled. but I've seen other storms do damage just as bad. Rainfall was less than forecasted, and I don't know of any nearby flooding.

Isabel was supposed to be going strong on Friday morning -- schools, public transportation and government were closed -- but it had completely evaporated. Bit of a letdown. Nothing at all like the coastal areas.

[Valerie5555]

7. Hurricane Andrew

When Hurricane Andrew hit Florida, it hadn't occurred to me to fret and sweat about a certain feline publication I subscribed to back then that was based there, but I was no doubt glad to see that the staff of that publication "dodged the Hurricane Andrew bullet," and I could now be glad my hopes that certain people I knew had dodged the "Hurricane Isabel bullet" were possibly confirmed.