Photos of Hurricane Isabel

My personal favorites, photos of Hurricane Isabel taken from the International Space Station.  (Source: NASA)

Satellite photo of Hurricane Isabel east of Florida and Cuba.  At this point it was a category 4.  It was a category 2 when it hit North Carolina.  (Source unknown)

A satellite photo of Hurricane Isabel centered over Richmond VA.  (Source: The Weather Channel)

This rainfall forecast was pretty accurate.  Hurricane Isabel dumped many inches of rain on areas already above average rainfall for this time of year. (Source: The Weather Channel)

A wider satellite photo of Hurricane Isabel. (Source: The Weather Channel)

Hurricane Isabel slammed into this house in Harlowe, NC.  (Source: CNN)

This Land Rover was no match for Isabel in Kitty Hawk, NC.  (Source: Patrick Schneider, The Charlotte Observer)

Aerial photo of the damage from Hurricane Isabel.  The photo shows homes near Kill Devil Hills, NC.  (Source: Karen Tam, AP)

Flood waters rise around a motel in Buxton, NC.  (Source: CNN)

Water crashes into homes in Avalon, NJ.  (Source: CNN)

This tree was about 150 years old until it met Hurricane Isabel.  (Source: CNN)

Rowing a canoe and wading through downtown Annapolis, MD after a storm surge flood.  (Source: Susan Walsh, AP)

Michael Snider begins cleanup in his Virginia Beach, VA home.  (Source: CNN)

A house in Kill Devil Hills, NC prepares on Tuesday.  This area was the shore landing for hurricane Isabel.  (Source: CNN)

This unidentified photo shows some of the destruction.  (Source: Gulf Daily News)

Flood waters from the Neuse River surround a house in New Bern, NC.  (Source: CNN)

Hurricane Isabel caused huge waves as far south as Daytona Beach, FL.  (Source: CNN)

Highways were covered with boats as they evacuated Wrightsville, NC and the Outer Banks.  (Sources: CNN and Jason Reed, Reuters)

Ocean water begins to cover the highway in Kitty Hawk, NC.  (Source: Mark Gormus, Richmond Times-Dispatch)

A building built on a pier at the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences took a beating in Gloucester, VA.  It's slowly settling into the York River.  (Source: Bruce Parker)

Tree service workers are busy removing trees from houses like this one in Greenville, NC.  (Source: CNN)

Aerial photo of houses flooded by the Rappahannook River in Urbana, VA.  (Source: Gerald Herbert, AP)

A beach house in Kitty Hawk, NC.  (Source: Paul Richards, Getty Images)

Two photos of flooding in North Beach, NC (Source: Mark Wilson, Getty Images)

Baltimore's Fells Point, MD (Source: Steve Ruark, AP)

A storm chaser from Arizona came to Atlantic Beach, NC to see Isabel arrive.  (Source unknown)

Grocery store shelves in Manteo, NC were empty of bottled water.  (Source: Jason Reed, Reuters)

An aerial view of flooding in downtown Annapolis, MD.  (Source: Frank Johnson, The Washington Post)

Highway 12 runs along the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  (Source: Patrick Schneider, The Charlotte Observer)

Emergency management coordinators work in the Virginia Emergency Operations center in Richmond.  (Source: Gerald Herbert, AP)

Heavy equipment removes sand from the boardwalk in Ocean City, MD.  (Source: Kristin Roberts, AP)

A family gathers in the dark in the Washington D.C. area.  (Source: Robert A. Reeder, The Washington Post)

The intersection of Union and King streets in Old Towne Alexandria, VA.  (Source: Stephen Jaffe, Getty Images)

Boats tied at the Pilot House Marina in Woodbridge, VA.  (Source: Dave Ellis, AP)

Trees crushed houses in Virginia Beach, Arlington, VA and Goldsboro, NC.  (Sources: Joe Raedle, Getty Images; Carol Guzy, The Washington Post; and Brent Hood, AP)

The Harrison fishing pier was destroyed in Norfolk, VA.  (Source: Steve Helber, AP)

An offshore buoy was beached near Rudee Inlet along Virginia Beach.  (Source: Stephen Savoia, AP)

A crawfish ambles across unfamiliar territory: the George Washington Parkway near Mount Vernon, VA.  (Source: John McDonnell, The Washington Post)

The flood in downtown Annapolis, MD didn't bother this black lab.  (Source: Don Wright, AP)

Reader submitted photos

Have a photo you'd like to add?  Email it to me, and I'll put it up.  Please tell the source of the photo if it isn't your original work.

This first group was taken by a helicopter crew for the North Carolina Department of Transportation.  They were examining extensive damage done to Route 12 along the Outer Banks.  

I apologize for the size of some of these, however they were far too impressive to shrink much.

This photo was taken on the ground, standing on what used to be Highway 12.

The guy in sunglasses is named Dave.  These photos were passed along several generations of email forwards before they landed in my inbox.  I'm uncertain who took them originally, but would love to give them credit.

The next two photos were taken by people in New Bern, NC.  The first one appeared in the Durham newspaper, the second was taken by our reader, Bettina Brinkley, a graduate student at ECU.  Thanks, Bettina.

These were submitted by another loyal SunFyre reader from Richmond VA.  Ok, he also happens to be my sister's boyfriend.  Thanks Vincent Degennaro.  (Or as I'm trying to teach my kids to say... "Uncle Vinnie")

<<--- My sister on the bike.

Lastly, thanks to Jennifer Tweed, my sister and a graduate student at University of Virginia.  She lives in Richmond.  

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