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It's the oddest thing - here we are preparing for Isabel - and the weather for the last two days has been magnificent - perfectly clear blue skies, cool, pleasant temps (mid 70's daytime) - perfect weather. There's absolutely no hint (other than from media) that anything is coming. This made me think of this in terms of people who lived before weather satellites and radar - say as recently as 70 years ago. They wouldn't have had any real clue that anything was coming until the skies got dark - today and yesterday would have had no forboding at all. The massive preparations we see, the media coverage - it's all very recent - not very far back, the arrival would have been a complete surprise to all but those actually on the coast - the ones who would have seen a few days of rising tides.
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