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/ 19 September 2003
Hurricane Isabel has plowed into North Carolina’s Outer Banks with 160 kph winds and pushed its way up the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, weakening to a tropical storm by evening but not before swamping roads, knocking out power to more than 2,5-million people and resulting in at least four deaths.