Article: LISTENING TO VOICE OF REASON IN THE FACE OF ISABEL.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON)

Byline: LAINE M. RUTHERFORD CORRESPONDENT

Laine M. Rutherford is an Oceanfront-based zone Beacon correspondent who, with her family, rode out Hurricane Isabel at their North End home.

The one thing I couldn't find during my week of hurricane preparedness was the same thing I avoided as Hurricane Isabel worked her mojo on Virginia Beach: the voice of reason.

I couldn't hear it anywhere and, apparently, neither could thousands of other Beach residents.

In the days leading up to the storm, between hunting at local stores for C and D batteries and sufficient amounts of spring water, I joined millions of others in a daily ritual.

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