Long lines spilled around gasoline stations that managed to stay open. In all, about 6 million people from North Carolina to New York lost power from Isabel - 1.6 million of them in southeastern and central Virginia, where uprooted trees and downed power lines closed hundreds of highways and secondary roads. Robert Ehrlich on Friday asked for federal disaster aid, which President Bush has granted to Virginia and North Carolina. Mayor Martin O'Malley, whose city also is dealing with 63,000 people without power, said: "We never thought we'd have enough sandbags to hold back the Chesapeake Bay, and that's what we're dealing with now."Īround Baltimore, amphibious duck vehicles usually used to show tourists around the city, dove in to help rescue residents stranded by the floodwater and haul them to safety, reports CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson.
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