We were OK in Cville... my house had some leaves in the yard and the power off from about 10 pm to 4 am, and the dead tree I'd been worrying would fall on my car someday came down and missed everything, even the road. But there were a lot of street lights out and I have friends who still don't have power, or cable - my cable never went out but lost a lot of local channels, and my local NPR station went out for a day or so too, nothing worse. And a lot of trees down and power lines down, just not right where I lived. This is the second hurricane that's missed my house completely - the last one knocked down trees to the east, north, west and south of me without even raining hard in my neighborhood. I think I'm in a weather hollow or some such thing... if I get rich, I'm keeping the house. Came up to DC to see Mom who has developed, or found out about having, serious heart trouble, and DC is a zoo - no street lights at more than half the intersections, only the main roads cleared of the trees and power lines blocking them, and in some places it was Lower your antenna to go under the power lines that aren't QUITE blocking the road... my sister in Fairfax will have to boil water for the foreseeable future, the water reservoirs all got contaminated when they flooded, and many folks there don't have power yet, so how are they supposed to boil the water? Imagine what Isabel could have done had she landed still in Cat. 5!