As Howie the Putz Kurtz, Gregg Easterbrook, Sully and the rest soil themselves laughing at the Hurricane Isabel "hype," the Washington Post reports the following:

Seventeen people were reported killed in storm-related accidents, including nine in Virginia, three in North Carolina, two in Maryland, and one each in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Rhode Island. At least 20 people in the DC-area, including four police officers responding to an emergency, were treated for apparent carbon monoxide poisoning emitted by indoor generators.

Portions of Old Town Alexandria were flooded, as well as parts of Georgetown and Annapolis, and thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes from Charles to Calvert to Fairfax counties.

(More on the deaths here.)

Meanwhile, vast sections of the blogosphere expressed regret that those killed were not French. On Fox, Brit Hume reported that more people were killed by hurricanes in the D.C. Metro area since Thursday than were killed by hurricanes in Iraq since Bush declared an end to "major combat operations."