ROCKED YOU LIKE A HURRICANE: Hurricane Isabel's run is over, leaving 4 million people without power and 21 people dead, in addition to a flooded city of Baltimore. New York, however, remained largely unaffected, aside from some pretty heavy wind (a mighty wind?) last night and this morning.
Gregg Easterbrook's TNR blog (likely to be recycled in TMQ Tuesday) yesterday attacked the hurricane coverage, calling it "Category Two Storm, Category Five Hype." And while Isabel did manage to cause quite a bit of damage, there's no question it got more hype than past hurricanes that hit rural Florida, Louisiana, and other such places. Why's that? Three words people: East. Coast. Bias.