Isabel: North Carolina

Floodwaters race through an RV park in Kitty Hawk, N.C., Sept. 18, 2003. Hurricane Isabel brought torrential rain and strong winds as it made landfall along the North Carolina coast.

Allison Henry, right, and Terrell Williamson, top left, look back and laugh as Katherine Forehand falls down while wading through a floodwaters from Hurricane Isabel in front of Union Point Park in New Bern, N.C., Sept. 18, 2003. Allison Shivar and Andrew Player are pictured in back. They are camp counselors from camps Sea Gull and Seafarer that were evacuated after preparing the camp for Isabel.

Adrian Solomon, left, 12, along with brother William Solomon, 18, and Precious Mayo, center, 8, ride out the strong winds and rains from Hurricane Isabel as water from the Neuse River rises in the front yard of their home in New Bern, N.C., Sept. 18, 2003.

Area residents sleep inside a makeshift shelter at the H.J. McDonald Middle School in New Bern, N.C., Sept. 18, 2003.

Etta Stewart, left, rides down a parking lot gutter full of rainwater in Cameron Village Shopping Center in Raleigh, N.C., as her friend Geri Hubbe watches, Sept. 18, 2003. The girls' school was closed due to Hurricane Isabel.

Wearing his Carolina Hurricanes hockey shirt, Ned Case, left, dances as he and neighbor Cheryl Duke watch the rain from Hurricane Isabel from Case's front porch in Raleigh, N.C., Sept. 18, 2003.

Bill Ackliss takes cover behind the relative stability of a power pole as a waves break across a road in Kitty Hawk, N.C., Sept. 18, 2003.

Budget Hotel property manager Charlie Gladwell inspects the debris of his roof that peeled off and landed on an Atlanta television station truck in Atlantic Beach, N.C., Sept. 18, 2003.

Waves pound over sand dunes edging the beach road in Kitty Hawk, N.C., Sept. 18, 2003. The leading edge of Hurricane Isabel was punching its way into the low-lying Outer Banks of North Carolina, making driving treacherous.

Jack Pierce, 38, of High Point, N.C., takes a moment to swing on a playground set next to the Triple S Pier in Atlantic Beach, N.C., Sept. 18, 2003. At rear his brother Scott, 32, walks along the beach and watches the waves crash against the pier as Hurricane Isabel approaches landfall.

A woman protects her son as they brace against the wind and rain outside a grocery store in Tarboro, N.C., Sept. 18, 2003, as the front of Hurricane Isabel arrives in the area.

North Carolina State Trooper Sgt. Mark Caine talks with a resident at a checkpoint at the base of the causeway bridge in Morehead City, N.C. that leads to Atlantic Beach, Sept. 17, 2003. City officials ordered a mandatory evacuation.

Cars head westbound on U.S. 7 out of New Bern, N.C., Sept. 17, 2003. Evacuation orders and Department of Transportation work on the roadway made traffic heavier than usual

Renee Farnsworth, James Jones, Ann Buck, and Mandee Norwood (clockwise from lower right) work on a sandwich assembly line at the Salvation Army in New Bern, N.C., Sept. 17, 2003. Volunteers were making more than 1,000 sandwiches for law enforcement and emergency workers who will be on duty during Hurricane Isabel.

Roger Pittman sandbags around a local business in Salter Path, N.C., Sept. 17, 2003.

Kelly Hull, top, and his wife, Cheryl, of Burke, Va., do some last minute preparations for Hurricane Isabel as they board up windows and doors on their beach house, Sept. 17, 2003, in Nags Head, N.C.

A couple bicycles past hurricane warning flags for Hurricane Isabel as they cross the bridge onto Wrightsville Beach, N.C., Sept. 17, 2003.

Myron Thomas points to a high water mark as he stands outside his Sea Level, N.C. home, Sept. 17, 2003. Thomas has lived in Sea Level for 66 years and says he's never left during a storm. His roof was blown off during Hurricane Floyd in 1999.