HERE IN DC, it was just your basic fierce summer storm. The sky turned light purple with rain for a while. Wind whipped the lampposts around. The streets went white with rain, then dark and wet. Then it stopped. Now everything is gray and the Metro is open again. So much for Isabel.

UPDATE: Well, apparently Iz did some serious huffin’ and puffin’ here after all–I saw a big uprooted tree on Capitol Hill, and Russo reported seeing a tree blocking off 18th Street and a lamppost bent in half. Wild. It really didn’t look that crazy when we were watching the storm last night; but then again, we were inside….