From ARRL:

NEWINGTON, CT, Sep 17, 2003--The National Hurricane Center says large
Hurricane Isabel is expected to make landfall in Eastern North Carolina
sometime during the day on September 18. Amateur Radio reports indicated
today that it's already raining on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The
Hurricane Watch Net http://www.hwn.org/ has activated on 14.325 MHz to
gather ground-level weather data for relay to the National Hurricane Center
via its WX4NHC Amateur Radio station. http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/w4ehw/ With
states of emergency declared by the governors of North Carolina and
Virginia, Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) teams already are active.
NC4EB, the ARES station at North Carolina Emergency Management's Eastern
Branch headquarters in Kinston is up and running fulltime

More at http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/09/17/101/?nc=1