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21
N.C.
DURHAM,
19,2003
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Hurricane sweeps
knocking
power and
out
In baseball,
through North Carolina,
cancelling
afternoon Duke classes
Hurricane
but limited
palpable led
call it
they
Isabel’s
of
caused
the
minor
only
service
utility
Several
at
the
trees
campus and late
ground
Severe
ceived
no
“It’s
Non-essential
the
at
and
employees
mained
at
After
food
some
work
or
re-
buildings.
when
[Hurri-
went
home
Policy
service
reported
Presi-
essential
policy,
bus
workers,
medical
personnel to
3
at
into
went
order of Executive Vice
like
drivers
but
DPD
Gustafson said.
dent Tallman Trask. Per the
employees
to
was
the Severe Weather
as
effect
damage
through,”
came
the
said Lt. Tom
Department,
lot easier than it
a
Fran
cane]
of
across
covered
minimal and
were
reports
but
loss of
no
down
reported
Thursday evening,
delays
implemen-
Policy
and
and debris
Gustafson of Duke Police traffic
was
storm
University.
were
twigs
the
as
Weather
damage
Duke
on
Thursday,
class cancellations and the
to
tation
p.m.
brushback.
a
impact
re-
work.
with Trask, Birkhead, Vice
meeting
President for Student Affairs
Larry Moneta,
Senior Vice President for Public ATfairs and Government Relations other leaders from Health at
3
System,
2 p.m.
p.m.
to
or
obstacles ANTHONY
Colin Crowe slides down a hill in the West-Edens Link
quadrangle, helped by
a
CROSS/THE
CHRONICLE
from her friend Jamie Campbell.
push
through “It
Slip, sliding lan Crouch
and
Karen Kauffman
In
THE CHRONICLE
Put
away
gasp!—text come
up with
A stroll found and
your
books.
some new
across
teams
West
or—-
have
rainy day
soaked
several clean
to
lathered up
were
students up
with
we’ve
their
on,
Suave
away
“We’re
the
in the stormy weather.
way,”
senior
asked
why,
We
can.
Tom
he
so we
ers
the
already played
natural
said.
Burney
some
a
out to
makeshift
tarp —and
When
“Because
responded,
came
sweat
sports get
going
clean.”
had found yet another
tivity:
showers,
taking
got that good
we not
Some
then
without
later,
shirtless
were
rainy-day
slip-and-slide
had
or
a
and
University
decided
Lange
cancel all classes that started
later because of reports on
was
that had
and
local roads
and
at
detailing
bad
weather
a matter
of
judgment
predictions
already
them
on
in
of
lot of debris
later water
that
concern
danger by put-
the road when there a
the
on
the
amount
rained and my
possibly put people
of wind and
based
of wind for
was
already
a
on
lot
the
road,” Lange said.
Down in the West-Edens Link, revel-
back in touch
getting
with Mother Nature.
football to
had and
shampoo
activities.
playing
Quadrangle,
opportunity
act —they
Campus Thursday
Frisbee,
reveling
books,
rainy-day
of students
Ultimate
bone and
Duke
took the
students
coloring
Craven
Provost Peter
part of the afternoon, the
ting by
the
the afternoon.
wind and
the
Burness
John
across
on
The
University
classes that
aca
tarp.
stripped
said
began
last-minute
move
was
originally
set
cancel
to
later than 6 p.m., but
reports
compelled
Lange
him
to
the cancellation time forward. Because
of the technical
challenge
of
informing
the
we
stickball,
SEE RAINY DAY ON PAGE
7
SEE CAMPUS
IMPACT ON
PAGE 6
Two million N.C. residents lose power by
Josh
Nimocks
on
THE CHRONICLE
Hurricane fall
Isabel
Thursday,
made land-
finally
hurtling
out
of the
lantic and into North Carolina a
small
inlet in
the
At-
through
southern strand
of
the Outer Banks. As
the
northwest and
state
process process next
of
began
assessing
that will
continued
on
its
of destruction, residents
officials
path
that will
and into
likely
the
the
lengthy
damage—a
take it
through
about
around
1
Island the
and
ordering
federal aid
to
40
a
of of
miles
Laboratory
George
declared North Carolina
south
just
about
Marine
Beaufort. President
state
with winds
p.m.
100 miles per hour,
Ocracoke
Vir-
Pennsylvania.
The eye of Isabel rolled into the
Thursday
northeast of
hurricane
path
a
ginia
at
W. Bush later disaster
the state,
as
area, more
than 2.2 million customers lost power.
continue well into
week. Meanwhile, Isabel continued
SEE POWER
ON PAGE 6
FMD workers Jack Carter and Marshall Fuller clear brush
Thursday.