After making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in North Carolina late Monday night, Tropical Storm Isaias [ees-ah-EE-ahs] raced up the East Coast Tuesday (August 4th), killing at least six people as it spawned tornadoes, dropped torrential rains, and whipped winds that caused power outages and uprooted trees. Two people were killed by a tornado that hit a North Carolina mobile home park, a woman died in Pennsylvania when her car was overtaken by water and swept downstream, two people were killed by falling trees in Maryland and New York City, and a sixth person was killed in Delaware when a tree branch fell on them. Philadelphia's Schuylkill River was projected to crest early today at 15.4 feet, it's highest level in more than 150 years.
While we were fortunate for the storm to be offshore dropping only some rain and some brief winds, people from North Carolina to New York weren't so lucky.